Clarissa Menezes Maya-Monteiro
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Salum K, Assis I, Kopke U, Palhinha L, Abreu G, Gouvea L, et al.
Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes
. 2025 Feb;
18:283-303.
PMID: 39906696
Purpose: Obesity is a complex disease caused by a combination of genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, and is associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases. The leptin-melanocortin pathway integrates...
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Assis I, Salum K, Felicio R, Palhinha L, Abreu G, Silva T, et al.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
. 2025 Feb;
15:1495534.
PMID: 39897959
Introduction: Genetic obesity is considered a rare disease, affecting up to 10% of patients with severe early-onset obesity. Over the past years, significant advances have been made; however, the majority...
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Proenca da Fonseca A, Assis I, Salum K, Palhinha L, Abreu G, Zembrzuski V, et al.
Front Genet
. 2024 Jun;
15:1363417.
PMID: 38841722
Introduction: Obesity is a multifactorial disease associated with the development of many comorbidities. This disease is associated with several metabolic alterations; however, it has been shown that some individuals with...
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Proenca da Fonseca A, Assis I, Salum K, Palhinha L, Abreu G, Zembrzuski V, et al.
Eat Weight Disord
. 2022 Nov;
27(8):3665-3674.
PMID: 36436143
Purpose: SH2B1 gene encodes an important adaptor protein to receptor tyrosine kinases or cytokine receptors associated with Janus kinases. This gene has been associated with the structural and functional modulation...
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Salum K, Rolando J, Zembrzuski V, Carneiro J, Mello C, Maya-Monteiro C, et al.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
. 2021 Sep;
12:722441.
PMID: 34504472
Obesity is a pandemic condition of complex etiology, resulting from the increasing exposition to obesogenic environmental factors combined with genetic susceptibility. In the past two decades, advances in genetic research...
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Proenca da Fonseca A, Abreu G, Palhinha L, Zembrzuski V, Junior M, Carneiro J, et al.
Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes
. 2021 Jan;
14:11-22.
PMID: 33442278
Background: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a pro-survival factor in the brain that also regulates energy balance. loss-of-function point mutations are responsible for haploinsufficiency, causing severe early-onset obesity. Up to...
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Salum K, de Souza G, Abreu G, Junior M, Kohlrausch F, Carneiro J, et al.
Front Genet
. 2020 Dec;
11:608840.
PMID: 33362866
Background: The melanocortinergic pathway orchestrates the energy homeostasis and impairments in this system often lead to an increase in body weight. Rare variants in the () gene resulting in partial...
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Souza-Almeida G, Palhinha L, Liechocki S, Aparecida da Silva Pereira J, Reis P, Dib P, et al.
J Leukoc Biol
. 2020 Oct;
109(6):1131-1138.
PMID: 33070353
Leptin is a pleiotropic adipokine that regulates immunometabolism centrally and peripherally. Obese individuals present increased levels of leptin in the blood and develop hypothalamic resistance to this adipokine. Here we...
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Lipid Droplets Accumulate in the Hypothalamus of Mice and Humans with and without Metabolic Diseases
Maya-Monteiro C, Correa-da-Silva F, Hofmann S, Hesselink M, la Fleur S, Yi C
Neuroendocrinology
. 2020 May;
111(3):263-272.
PMID: 32422642
Background: In peripheral tissues, the lipid droplet (LD) organelle links lipid metabolism, inflammation, and insulin resistance. Little is known about the brain LDs. Objectives: We hypothesized that hypothalamic LDs would...
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Palhinha L, Liechocki S, Hottz E, Aparecida da Silva Pereira J, de Almeida C, Moraes-Vieira P, et al.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
. 2020 Jan;
10:841.
PMID: 31920961
Leptin is an adipokine with well-known effects on the central nervous system including the induction of energy expenditure and satiety. Leptin also has major relevance when activating immune cells and...