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ReviewJournal of diabetes research2017

Muscle Lipid Metabolism: Role of Lipid Droplets and Perilipins.

Pablo Esteban Morales, Jose Luis Bucarey, Alejandra Espinosa

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Review in Journal of diabetes research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
93citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
35.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

93 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 335 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Muscle Ultrasound: A Novel Noninvasive Tool for Early Detection of Developing Insulin Resistance and Lower Muscle Mass in Obesity.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025
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  14. Lipid droplets as cell fate determinants in skeletal muscle.Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2025
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33 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pablo Esteban MoralesDepartamento de Tecnología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Jose Luis BucareyCIDIS-AC, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-4990-3385
Alejandra EspinosaDepartamento de Tecnología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-4779-5341
University of Chile · CLUniversity of Valparaíso · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skeletal muscle is one of the main regulators of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in our organism, and therefore, it is highly susceptible to changes in glucose and fatty acid (FA) availability. Skeletal muscle is an extremely complex tissue: its metabolic capacity depends on the type of fibers it is made up of and the level of stimulation it undergoes, such as acute or chronic contraction. Obesity is often associated with increased FA levels, which leads to the accumulation of toxic lipid intermediates, oxidative stress, and autophagy in skeletal fibers. This lipotoxicity is one of the most common causes of insulin resistance (IR). In this scenario, the "isolation" of certain lipids in specific cell compartments, through the action of the specific lipid droplet, perilipin (PLIN) family of proteins, is conceived as a lifeguard compensatory strategy. In this review, we summarize the cellular mechanism underlying lipid mobilization and metabolism inside skeletal muscle, focusing on the function of lipid droplets, the PLIN family of proteins, and how these entities are modified in exercise, obesity, and IR conditions.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyFatty AcidsLipid DropletsLipid MetabolismMuscle, SkeletalOxidative StressPerilipinsFatty AcidsPerilipins

Identifiers

PMID28676863
PMCPMC5476901
OpenAlexW2622197569

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