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ArticleNature communications2025

Paracrine role of endothelial IGF-1 receptor in depot-specific adipose tissue adaptation in male mice.

Cheukyau Luk, Katherine I Bridge, Nele Warmke, Katie J Simmons, Michael Drozd, Amy Moran, Amanda D V MacCannell, Chew W Cheng, Sam Straw, Jason L Scragg and 27 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. 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

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Insulin-like growth factor receptor signaling in physiology and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

37 authors.

Cheukyau LukLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6828-5423
Katherine I BridgeLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Nele WarmkeLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Katie J SimmonsLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4846-9097
Michael DrozdLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0255-4624
Amy MoranLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Amanda D V MacCannellLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Chew W ChengLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2873-0828
Sam StrawLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Jason L ScraggLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Jessica SmithLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Claire H OzberLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3312-0925
Chloe G WilkinsonLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7471-6429
Anna SkromnaLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Natallia MakavaLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Hiran A PragMRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4753-8567
T Simon FutersLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3810-190X
Oliver I BrownLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7555-476X
Alexander-Francisco BrunsLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6970-4036
Andrew Mn WalkerLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0380-7283
Nicole T WattLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Romana MughalLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Kathryn J GriffinLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Nadira Y YuldashevaLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6213-6358
Sunti LimumpornpetchLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Hema ViswambharanLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7616-5026
Piruthivi SukumarLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
David J BeechLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7683-9422
Antonio Vidal-PuigUniversity of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4220-9577
Klaus K WitteLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7146-7105
Michael P MurphyMRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1115-9618
Richard C HartleySchool of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1033-5405
Stephen B WheatcroftLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Richard M CubbonLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7844-3600
Lee D RobertsLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1455-5248
Mark T KearneyLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. m.t.kearney@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-9376-8814
Natalie J HaywoodLeeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/X009734/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During recent decades, changes in lifestyle have led to widespread nutritional obesity and its related complications. Remodelling adipose tissue as a therapeutic goal for obesity and its complications has attracted much attention and continues to be actively explored. The endothelium lines all blood vessels and is close to all cells, including adipocytes. The endothelium has been suggested to act as a paracrine organ. We explore the role of endothelial insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R), as a paracrine modulator of white adipose phenotype. We show that a reduction in endothelial IGF-1R expression in the presence of high-fat feeding in male mice leads to depot-specific beneficial white adipose tissue remodelling, increases whole-body energy expenditure and enhances insulin sensitivity via a non-cell-autonomous paracrine mechanism. We demonstrate that increased endothelial malonate may be contributory and that malonate prodrugs have potentially therapeutically relevant properties in the treatment of obesity-related metabolic disease.

Indexed as

Diet, High-FatMice, Inbred C57BLObesityParacrine CommunicationReceptor, IGF Type 1Adaptation, PhysiologicalAdipocytesAdipose TissueAdipose Tissue, WhiteAnimalsEndothelial CellsEnergy MetabolismInsulin ResistanceMaleMiceIgf1r protein, mouseReceptor, IGF Type 1

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PMID39747815
PMCPMC11696296

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