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ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2020

Purine Metabolite Signatures and Type 2 Diabetes: Innocent Bystanders or Actionable Items?

Giulio R Romeo, Meenu Jain

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2020. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Giulio R RomeoJoslin Diabetes Center, One Joslin Place, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. Giulio.romeo@joslin.harvard.edu.
Meenu JainLahey Hospital & Medical Center, 41 Mall Road, Burlington, MA, 01805, USA.
Joslin Diabetes Center · USLahey Hospital and Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis article reviews evidence linking cardiometabolic conditions with changes in purine metabolites, including increased serum uric acid (sUA), and discusses intervention studies that investigated the therapeutic relevance of these associations. RECENT

findingsMetabolic and epidemiological findings support a correlation between sUA and circulating levels of other purines with insulin resistance (IR) and risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). In addition, increased activity of xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR), the rate-limiting enzyme for UA production, has been detected in tissues targeted by obesity. Yet, inhibition of XOR in pre-clinical and clinical studies generally failed to support a causal role for excess sUA in IR and CVD. The lack of efficacy of XOR inhibitors strongly suggests that UA is a marker of, rather than a direct contributory factor for, cardiometabolic diseases. Validation of the function of other purines will require a paradigm shift, from a "UA-centric" view to a more granular assessment of the entire purine network and its interaction with other pathways.

Indexed as

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Uric AcidHumansPurinesXanthine DehydrogenasepurinePurinesUric AcidXanthine DehydrogenaseAllopurinolCardiovascular diseaseInsulin resistanceNon-alcoholic fatty liver diseaseXanthine oxidoreductase

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