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Sharma et al. review the regulation and biological functions of apparently ‘futile’ dynamic lipid cycle in regulating whole-body metabolic homeostasis.
Demicco, Liu et al. discuss how metabolic adaptations in cancer contribute to tumour progression. These adaptations entail high spatial and temporal metabolic heterogeneity, based on local adaptations in different regions of the tumour microenvironment, as well as metabolic evolution over time as the tumour progresses and metastasizes.
This Review discusses the role of mitophagy in cellular and organismal health and disease, with a specific focus on human ageing and evidence obtained in clinical studies.
This Review article discusses how the emerging field of metabolomic epidemiology gives insight into the aetiology of various diseases and how these findings could be translated into clinical applications.
Mishra and Townsend present an overview of the regulation, function and plasticity of adipose tissue sensory nerves that are relevant for metabolic processes in health and disease.
In this Review, TeSlaa, Ralser, Fan and Rabinowitz comprehensively review the fundamental biochemical aspects of the pentose phosphate pathway and discuss its biological relevance in the context of physiology and pathology.
Kim and colleagues discuss the regulatory mechanisms of lipogenesis, the physiological and pathological role of lipogenesis in tissues such as adipose tissue, liver, neurons and cancer, and how lipogenesis may be targeted therapeutically to ameliorate disease.
Matsumura, Wei and Sakai discuss epitranscriptomic modifications and their links to metabolic disease, how genetic and environmental factors influence epitranscriptomics, and how the epitranscriptome is linked to the epigenome.
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are an integral part of the innate immune system. This Review discusses how ILC function is regulated by both intrinsic and extrinsic metabolic pathways, and how ILCs contribute to metabolic disease.
Bar-Peled and Kory discuss how metabolic compartmentalization, defined as the spatial and temporal separation of pathways and components within a system, can shape organismal metabolism, while its dysregulation can lead to pathological states.
The author discusses how metabolic engagements and reconfiguration of immune and non-immune cells following virus recognition modulate the natural course of viral infections, and how such early metabolic alterations are likely to influence longer-term disease manifestations of infection.
This Review summarizes emerging concepts for diabetes therapy aimed at specifically altering β cell biology and function, such as β cell insulin signalling, proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, as well as the selective killing of senescent β cells.
Measurements of oxygen consumption rates have been central to the resurgent interest in studying cellular metabolism. To enhance the overall reproducibility and reliability of these measurements, Divakaruni and Jastroch provide a guide advising on the selection of experimental models and instrumentation as well as the analysis and interpretation of data.
Nampoothiri et al. discuss the most recent literature that places glial cells as key mediators of energy balance through integration of peripheral signals in discrete brain regions, highlighting the relevance of glia in the pathophysiology of metabolic diseases.
The hindbrain is mostly known to participate in eating behaviour by controlling short-term meal parameters and aversive responses to gut malaise. Cheng et al. review current evidence revealing non-aversive neuronal circuits in the hindbrain that are relevant for initiation and termination of homeostatic feeding, as well as for the long-term control of body weight.
Alcantara and Miranda-Tapia et al. discuss the central mechanisms that dictate eating behaviour, by dissecting the neural circuits involved in food procurement, food consumption, and meal termination.
Ozanne and colleagues discuss the evidence of sex differences in the response to suboptimal pre-conceptual and in utero environments, detail the biological mechanisms underlying the intergenerational inheritance of metabolic traits, and show how these sex differences can manifest as metabolic disease in adults.
Tilg et al. explore how metabolic dysfunction, altered gut microbiome and dysregulated innate and adaptive immunity contribute to NAFLD and how the interplay between these factors mediates disease progression.
Zechner and colleagues discuss mechanisms facilitating the mobilization of intracellular fatty acids and how they affect lipid-mediated signalling, metabolic regulation and energy homeostasis in health and disease.