2024
Adiposity, immunity, and inflammation: interrelationships in health and disease: a report from 24th Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium, June 2023
Burak M, Stanley T, Lawson E, Campbell S, Lynch L, Hasty A, Domingos A, Dixit V, Hotamışlıgil G, Sheedy F, Dixon A, Brinkley T, Hill J, Donath M, Grinspoon S. Adiposity, immunity, and inflammation: interrelationships in health and disease: a report from 24th Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium, June 2023. American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition 2024, 120: 257-268. PMID: 38705359, PMCID: PMC11347817, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.04.029.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLow-grade systemic inflammationChronic low-grade inflammationLocal immune environmentAdipose tissueLow-grade inflammationEffect of obesityObesity Research CenterPro-inflammatory pathwaysOutcome of metabolic diseasesImmune environmentSystemic inflammationHealth and DiseaseTreatment therapiesInflammationMultifaceted effectsDisease severityMetabolic diseasesImmunometabolic diseasesImmunityAdiposeDiseaseReduced disease severityObesityTissueDisrupting cellular homeostasis
2021
Ketogenic diet restrains aging-induced exacerbation of coronavirus infection in mice
Ryu S, Shchukina I, Youm YH, Qing H, Hilliard B, Dlugos T, Zhang X, Yasumoto Y, Booth CJ, Fernández-Hernando C, Suárez Y, Khanna K, Horvath TL, Dietrich MO, Artyomov M, Wang A, Dixit VD. Ketogenic diet restrains aging-induced exacerbation of coronavirus infection in mice. ELife 2021, 10: e66522. PMID: 34151773, PMCID: PMC8245129, DOI: 10.7554/elife.66522.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsΓδ T cellsKetogenic dietCoronavirus infectionAged miceT cellsHigher systemic inflammationInfected aged miceCOVID-19 severityCOVID-19 infectionActivation of ketogenesisMouse hepatitis virus strain A59Systemic inflammationInflammatory damageInfluenza infectionClinical hallmarkNLRP3 inflammasomeImmune surveillanceAdipose tissuePotential treatmentInfectionMiceStrongest predictorLungMortalityAge