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School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Developmentally Originated Disease, Wuhan, China
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to metabolic syndrome and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) ( Xu et al. 2012 a , Wang et al. 2014 ). Meanwhile, we recently reported that PCE induces hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance and high susceptibility to metabolic syndrome in
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patients ( Magnusson et al. 1992 , Saltiel & Kahn 2001 , Wajngot et al. 2001 ). It is now clear that metformin improves hyperglycemia mainly through the suppression of gluconeogenesis in the liver. In a human study, treatment of patients with T2D with
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Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Nursing
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Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Nursing
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extracts, obtained from thymus (Ty), skeletal muscle (SM), liver (Li), white adipose tissue (WAT), spleen (Sp), cardiac muscle (He), lung (Lu), and kidney (Ki), from 8-week old male Wistar rats were separated by SDS–PAGE, transferred to nitrocellulose
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, trophoblast giant cells in mice and chorionic binucleate cells in sheep ( Gootwine 2004 , Sibiak et al. 2020 ). CSH binding has been identified in several maternal and fetal sheep tissues, including skeletal muscle, pancreas and liver ( Chan et al. 1978
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tissues is unknown. The liver is involved in lipid synthesis, transportation and storage, as well as in glucose and insulin metabolism ( Paschos & Paletas 2009 ), all key factors in PCOS pathogenesis ( den Boer et al . 2004 , Paschos & Paletas 2009
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Liver X receptor The liver X receptors (LXRs), LXRα (NR1H3) and LXRβ (NR1H2), belong to the nuclear receptor superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors ( Janowski et al . 1996 ). LXRα was initially isolated from a rat liver cDNA library
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Institute of Liver Diseases, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Institute of Liver Diseases, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Introduction The liver is a primary target organ for insulin and plays a critical role in glucose homeostasis. It maintains a balance between the uptake and storage of glucose by regulating glycogenesis and the production of glucose by
Department of Zoology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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the liver, and it is one of the major acute-phase serum proteins associated with inflammatory response ( Kushner 1982 ). Serum α 2 -MG is also capable of binding to a broad spectrum of cytokines, such as transforming growth factor ( Huang et al. 1988
Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Institute for Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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glucocorticoids can have sexually dimorphic actions ( Duma et al . 2010 , Quinn & Cidlowski 2016 ). For example, in the liver the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone differentially affects expression of many GR target genes in male vs female rats ( Duma et
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IGF1 is liver derived ( Sjögren et al . 1999 , Yakar et al . 1999 ). A mouse model with liver-specific, inducible inactivation of the Igf1 gene, using the Cre-LoxP conditional knockout system, has been developed (LI-IGF1 −/− mice; Sjögren et al