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ReviewAnnals of hepatology

Microarrays, antiobesity and the liver.

Fernando Castro-Chávez

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Review in Annals of hepatology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fernando Castro-ChávezDepartamento de Biología Molecular en Medicina, Hospital Civil de Belén, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, México. fdocc@yahoo.com
Universidad de Guadalajara · MX

Funding

ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY TRAINING CENTERT32HL007812 · NHLBI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BALLANTYNE, CHRISTIE MITCHELL · 1997 to 2012
$3.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review, the microarray technology and especially oligonucleotide arrays are exemplified with a practical example taken from the perilipin-/- mice and using the dChip software, available for non-lucrative purposes. It was found that the liver of perilipin-/- mice was healthy and normal, even under high-fat diet when compared with the results published for the scd1-/- mice, which under high-fat diets had a darker liver, suggestive of hepatic steatosis. Scd1 is required for the biosynthesis of monounsaturated fatty acids and plays a key role in the hepatic synthesis of triglycerides and of very-low-density lipoproteins. Both models of obesity resistance share many similar phenotypic antiobesity features, however, the perilipin-/- mice had a significant downregulation of stearoyl CoA desaturases scd1 and scd2 in its white adipose tissue, but a normal level of both genes inside the liver, even under high-fat diet. Here, different microarray methodologies are discussed, and also some of the most recent discoveries and perspectives regarding the use of microarrays, with an emphasis on obesity gene expression, and a personal remark on my findings of increased expression for hemoglobin transcripts and other hemo related genes (hemo-like), and for leukocyte like (leuko-like) genes inside the white adipose tissue of the perilipin-/- mice. In conclusion, microarrays have much to offer in comparative studies such as those in antiobesity, and also they are methodologies adequate for new astounding molecular discoveries [free full text of this article Online].

Indexed as

Oligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisAnimalsCarrier ProteinsDietary FatsGene ExpressionGene Expression ProfilingLiverMiceMice, KnockoutNuclear ProteinsObesityPerilipin-1PhosphoproteinsProteinsStearoyl-CoA DesaturaseTranscription FactorsCarrier ProteinsDietary FatsNuclear ProteinsPerilipin-1PhosphoproteinsProteinsStearoyl-CoA DesaturaseTHRSP protein, humanThrsp protein, mouseTranscription Factors

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PMID15657555
PMCPMC3651835
OpenAlexW2129528177

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