scholarly journals CIDEC/FSP27 is regulated by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and plays a critical role in fasting- and diet-induced hepatosteatosis

Hepatology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1227-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Langhi ◽  
Ángel Baldán
PPAR Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Morinishi ◽  
Yasunori Tokuhara ◽  
Hiroyuki Ohsaki ◽  
Emi Ibuki ◽  
Kyuichi Kadota ◽  
...  

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR-α) belongs to the PPAR family and plays a critical role in inhibiting cell proliferation and tumorigenesis in various tumors. However, the role of PPAR-αin colorectal tumorigenesis is unclear. In the present study, we found that fenofibrate, a PPAR-αagonist, significantly inhibited cell proliferation and induced apoptosis in colorectal carcinoma cells. In addition, PPAR-αwas expressed in the nucleus of colorectal carcinoma cells, and the expression of nuclear PPAR-αincreased in colorectal carcinoma tissue compared with that of normal epithelium tissue (P<0.01). The correlation between the expression of nuclear PPAR-αand clinicopathological factors was evaluated in human colorectal carcinoma tissues, and the nuclear expression of PPAR-αwas significantly higher in well-to-moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma than in mucinous adenocarcinoma (P<0.05). These findings indicate that activation of PPAR-αmay be involved in anticancer effects in colorectal carcinomas, and nuclear expression of PPAR-αmay be a therapeutic target for colorectal adenocarcinoma treatment.


2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sagartirtha Sarkar ◽  
Santanu Rana

Cardiac tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that engineers modulation of viable molecular milieu to restore, maintain or improve heart function. Myocardial workload (energy demand) and energy substrate availability (supply) are in continual flux to maintain specialized cellular processes, yet the heart has a limited capacity for substrate storage and utilization during pathophysiological conditions. Damage to heart muscle, acute or chronic, leads to dysregulation of cardiac metabolic processes associated with gradual but progressive decline in mitochondrial respiratory pathways resulting in diminished ATP production. The Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor Alpha ( PPARα ) is known to regulate fatty acid to glucose metabolic balance as well as mitochondrial structural integrity. In this study, a non-canonical pathway of PPARα was analyzed by cardiomyocyte targeted PPARα overexpression during cardiac hypertrophy that showed significant downregulation in p53 acetylation as well as GSK3β activation levels. Targeted PPARα overexpression during hypertrophy resulted in restoration of mitochondrial structure and function along with significantly improved mitochondrial ROS generation and membrane potential. This is the first report of myocyte targeted PPARα overexpression in hypertrophied myocardium that results in an engineered heart with significantly improved function with increased muscle mitochondrial endurance and reduced mitochondrial apoptotic load, thus conferring a greater resistance to pathological stimuli within cardiac microenvironment.


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