ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Mechanical Stretch Control of Adipocyte AKT Signaling and the Role of FAK and ROCK Mechanosensors.
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- Autofluorescence profiles define depot-specific adipocyte phenotypes in perivascular and non-perivascular adipose tissue.Adipocyte · 2026Article
- The Serpin Superfamily in Adipose Tissue Remodeling: Molecular Drivers of Immune-Metabolic Crosstalk and Insulin Sensitivity.Biology · 2026Review
- The Emerging Role of Mechanobiology in Connecting Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases: From Fundamentals to Future Therapies.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Bridging the variant-to-function gap in type 2 diabetes: advances and challenges.Diabetologia · 2026Review
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Adipose tissue in vivo is physiologically exposed to compound mechanical loading due to bodyweight bearing, posture, and motion. The capability of adipocytes to sense and respond to mechanical loading milieus to influence metabolic functions may provide a new insight into obesity and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here, we evidenced physiological mechanical loading control of adipocyte insulin signaling cascades. We exposed differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes to mechanical stretching and assessed key markers of insulin signaling, AKT activation, and GLUT4 translocation, required for glucose uptake. We showed that cyclic stretch loading at 5% strain and 1 Hz frequency increases AKT phosphorylation and GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane by approximately two-fold increases compared to unstretched controls for both markers as assessed by immunoblotting (
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