Recent Posts Tagged With 'metabolism'

• Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and your ticker

  Posted on Thursday January 1st, 2009 at 20:17 in diabetes, metabolism, cardiovascular disease, ppar, circadian rhythm

  Everyone knows by now that having diabetes raises the risk for heart disease in various forms. Wouldn't it be interesting to understand the biological reasons for this connection? Well, it turns out that various factors seem to be relevant, and one o...

• Serotonin

  Posted on Sunday June 22nd, 2008 at 19:50 in metabolism, social psychology, serotonin, fairness

  It's always interesting to find out that important hormones and proteins play multiple disparate roles in an organism. Such a finding suggests that problems in one area may be related to problems in very different areas.I suppose everyone knows that ...

• Adiponectin, longevity, and cancer

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 23:48 in Cancer, metabolism, longevity, calorie restriction, ppar, adiponectin

  Adiponectin is a hormone that is made exclusively in adipose (fat) tissue and secreted into the blood stream. It modulates a number of metabolic processes, such as glucose regulation and production of energy from fatty acids.We had a long note on adi...

• Calorie restriction, TOR signaling, and aging

  Posted on Sunday April 27th, 2008 at 23:03 in aging, metabolism, longevity, calorie restriction, tor signaling

  Now that I've given some pointers to information about how TOR signaling is involved with metabolism (see here), it seems like an opportune time to mention a recent research announcement in this general area.How Dietary Restriction Slows Down Aging (...

• Cancer, metabolism, and oncogenes

  Posted on Sunday April 27th, 2008 at 21:47 in Cancer, metabolism, cell biology, tor signaling

  I want to call attention (somewhat belatedly) to a series of three very good tutorial blog posts at The Daily Transcript. Although they are nominally about changing views regarding cancer and its causes, they actually provide a nice overview of a num...

• Adiponectin

  Posted on Friday September 21st, 2007 at 03:50 in diabetes, metabolism, obesity, inflammation, atherosclerosis, leptin, adiponectin

  As we noted in this article back in July, there are several hormones and neurotransmitters that have noteworthy effects on appetite and eating behavior, and as a result are of much interest with respect to weight gain (or loss) and obesity. The two m...