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Inflammatory cause of metabolic syndrome via brain stress and NF-κB - 0 views

  • Mechanistic studies further showed that such metabolic inflammation is related to the induction of various intracellular stresses such as mitochondrial oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and autophagy defect under prolonged nutritional excess
  • intracellular stress-inflammation process for metabolic syndrome has been established in the central nervous system (CNS) and particularly in the hypothalamus
  • the CNS and the comprised hypothalamus are known to govern various metabolic activities of the body including appetite control, energy expenditure, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, and blood pressure homeostasis
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  • Reactive oxygen species (ROS) refer to a class of radical or non-radical oxygen-containing molecules that have high oxidative reactivity with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids
  • a large measure of intracellular ROS comes from the leakage of mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC)
  • Another major source of intracellular ROS is the intentional generation of superoxides by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase
  • there are other ROS-producing enzymes such as cyclooxygenases, lipoxygenases, xanthine oxidase, and cytochrome p450 enzymes, which are involved with specific metabolic processes
  • To counteract the toxic effects of molecular oxidation by ROS, cells are equipped with a battery of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutases, catalase, peroxiredoxins, sulfiredoxin, and aldehyde dehydrogenases
  • intracellular oxidative stress has been indicated to contribute to metabolic syndrome and related diseases, including T2D [72; 73], CVDs [74-76], neurodegenerative diseases [69; 77-80], and cancers
  • intracellular oxidative stress is highly associated with the development of neurodegenerative diseases [69] and brain aging
  • dietary obesity was found to induce NADPH oxidase-associated oxidative stress in rat brain
  • mitochondrial dysfunction in hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons causes central glucose sensing impairment
  • Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the cellular organelle responsible for protein synthesis, maturation, and trafficking to secretory pathways
  • unfolded protein response (UPR) machinery
  • ER stress has been associated to obesity, insulin resistance, T2D, CVDs, cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases
  • brain ER stress underlies neurodegenerative diseases
  • under environmental stress such as nutrient deprivation or hypoxia, autophagy is strongly induced to breakdown macromolecules into reusable amino acids and fatty acids for survival
  • intact autophagy function is required for the hypothalamus to properly control metabolic and energy homeostasis, while hypothalamic autophagy defect leads to the development of metabolic syndrome such as obesity and insulin resistance
  • prolonged oxidative stress or ER stress has been shown to impair autophagy function in disease milieu of cancer or aging
  • TLRs are an important class of membrane-bound pattern recognition receptors in classical innate immune defense
  • Most hypothalamic cell types including neurons and glia cells express TLRs
  • overnutrition constitutes an environmental stimulus that can activate TLR pathways to mediate the development of metabolic syndrome related disorders such as obesity, insulin resistance, T2D, and atherosclerotic CVDs
  • Isoforms TLR1, 2, 4, and 6 may be particularly pertinent to pathogenic signaling induced by lipid overnutrition
  • hypothalamic TLR4 and downstream inflammatory signaling are activated in response to central lipid excess via direct intra-brain lipid administration or HFD-feeding
  • overnutrition-induced metabolic derangements such as central leptin resistance, systemic insulin resistance, and weight gain
  • these evidences based on brain TLR signaling further support the notion that CNS is the primary site for overnutrition to cause the development of metabolic syndrome.
  • circulating cytokines can limitedly travel to the hypothalamus through the leaky blood-brain barrier around the mediobasal hypothalamus to activate hypothalamic cytokine receptors
  • significant evidences have been recently documented demonstrating the role of cytokine receptor pathways in the development of metabolic syndrome components
  • entral administration of TNF-α at low doses faithfully replicated the effects of central metabolic inflammation in enhancing eating, decreasing energy expenditure [158;159], and causing obesity-related hypertension
  • Resistin, an adipocyte-derived proinflammatory cytokine, has been found to promote hepatic insulin resistance through its central actions
  • both TLR pathways and cytokine receptor pathways are involved in central inflammatory mechanism of metabolic syndrome and related diseases.
  • In quiescent state, NF-κB resides in the cytoplasm in an inactive form due to inhibitory binding by IκBα protein
  • IKKβ activation via receptor-mediated pathway, leading to IκBα phosphorylation and degradation and subsequent release of NF-κB activity
  • Research in the past decade has found that activation of IKKβ/NF-κB proinflammatory pathway in metabolic tissues is a prominent feature of various metabolic disorders related to overnutrition
  • it happens in metabolic tissues, it is mainly associated with overnutrition-induced metabolic derangements, and most importantly, it is relatively low-grade and chronic
  • this paradigm of IKKβ/NF-κB-mediated metabolic inflammation has been identified in the CNS – particularly the comprised hypothalamus, which primarily accounts for to the development of overnutrition-induced metabolic syndrome and related disorders such as obesity, insulin resistance, T2D, and obesity-related hypertension
  • evidences have pointed to intracellular oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction as upstream events that mediate hypothalamic NF-κB activation in a receptor-independent manner under overnutrition
  • In the context of metabolic syndrome, oxidative stress-related NF-κB activation in metabolic tissues or vascular systems has been implicated in a broad range of metabolic syndrome-related diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, cardiac infarct, stroke, cancer, and aging
  • intracellular oxidative stress seems to be a likely pathogenic link that bridges overnutrition with NF-κB activation leading to central metabolic dysregulation
  • overnutrition is an environmental inducer for intracellular oxidative stress regardless of tissues involved
  • excessive nutrients, when transported into cells, directly increase mitochondrial oxidative workload, which causes increased production of ROS by mitochondrial ETC
  • oxidative stress has been shown to activate NF-κB pathway in neurons or glial cells in several types of metabolic syndrome-related neural diseases, such as stroke [185], neurodegenerative diseases [186-188], and brain aging
  • central nutrient excess (e.g., glucose or lipids) has been shown to activate NF-κB in the hypothalamus [34-37] to account for overnutrition-induced central metabolic dysregulations
  • overnutrition can present the cell with a metabolic overload that exceeds the physiological adaptive range of UPR, resulting in the development of ER stress and systemic metabolic disorders
  • chronic ER stress in peripheral metabolic tissues such as adipocytes, liver, muscle, and pancreatic cells is a salient feature of overnutrition-related diseases
  • recent literature supports a model that brain ER stress and NF-κB activation reciprocally promote each other in the development of central metabolic dysregulations
  • when intracellular stresses remain unresolved, prolonged autophagy upregulation progresses into autophagy defect
  • autophagy defect can induce NF-κB-mediated inflammation in association with the development of cancer or inflammatory diseases (e.g., Crohn's disease)
  • The connection between autophagy defect and proinflammatory activation of NF-κB pathway can also be inferred in metabolic syndrome, since both autophagy defect [126-133;200] and NF-κB activation [20-33] are implicated in the development of overnutrition-related metabolic diseases
  • Both TLR pathway and cytokine receptor pathways are closely related to IKKβ/NF-κB signaling in the central pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome
  • Overnutrition, especially in the form of HFD feeding, was shown to activate TLR4 signaling and downstream IKKβ/NF-κB pathway
  • TLR4 activation leads to MyD88-dependent NF-κB activation in early phase and MyD88-indepdnent MAPK/JNK pathway in late phase
  • these studies point to NF-κB as an immediate signaling effector for TLR4 activation in central inflammatory response
  • TLR4 activation has been shown to induce intracellular ER stress to indirectly cause metabolic inflammation in the hypothalamus
  • central TLR4-NF-κB pathway may represent one of the early receptor-mediated events in overnutrition-induced central inflammation.
  • cytokines and their receptors are both upstream activating components and downstream transcriptional targets of NF-κB activation
  • central administration of TNF-α at low dose can mimic the effect of obesity-related inflammatory milieu to activate IKKβ/NF-κB proinflammatory pathways, furthering the development of overeating, energy expenditure decrease, and weight gain
  • the physiological effects of IKKβ/NF-κB activation seem to be cell type-dependent, i.e., IKKβ/NF-κB activation in hypothalamic agouti-related protein (AGRP) neurons primarily leads to the development of energy imbalance and obesity [34]; while in hypothalamic POMC neurons, it primarily results in the development of hypertension and glucose intolerance
  • the hypothalamus, is the central regulator of energy and body weight balance [
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    Great article chronicles the biochemistry of "over nutrition" and inflammation through NF-kappaB activation and its impact on the brain.
Nathan Goodyear

Neurodegenerative disorders: clues from glutamate ... [Crit Rev Neurobiol. 1996] - PubM... - 0 views

  • glutamate antagonists or agents that improve energy metabolism may slow the degenerative process and offer a therapeutic approach for temporarily retarding the progression of these disabling disorders.
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    Magnesium and Zinc improve neurodegenerative disease via glutamate blockade; Poor energy production at foundation of neurodegenerative disease
Nathan Goodyear

Annals of Internal Medicine | Gene-Diet Interactions in Brain Aging and Neurodegenerati... - 0 views

  • it appears that dietary restriction promotes neuronal survival, plasticity, and even neurogenesis by inducing a mild cellular stress response that involves activation of genes that encode proteins designed to promote neuronal growth and surviva
  • Studies of animal models of Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease have shown that, by decreasing homocysteine levels, dietary folic acid can be neuroprotective
  • The current average daily calorie intake of Americans is approximately 2700 for women and more than 3000 for men
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    what you eat and how many calories you eat effects you brain and your risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
Nathan Goodyear

Advanced Glycation End Products in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Dise... - 0 views

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    AGE's, advanced glycation end products, play a role in development/progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's...
Nathan Goodyear

JAMA Network | JAMA Neurology | Refractory Nonmotor Symptoms in Male Patients With Park... - 0 views

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    Testosterone therapy aids symptoms of Parkinson's disease.  Whether low T is an associated finding or plays a role has yet to be determined.  However, we do know that androgens play an anti-inflammatory role in men and we know that inflammation plays a role in the neurodegenerative disease that is Parkinson's disease.
Nathan Goodyear

Mitochondrial medicine for aging and neurodegenera... [Neuromolecular Med. 2008] - PubM... - 0 views

  • This article discusses critical issues of mitochondria causing dysfunction in aging and neurodegenerative diseases, and discusses the potential of developing mitochondrial medicine, particularly mitochondrially targeted antioxidants, to treat aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
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    Great review of mitochondrial medicine to treat age-related and neurodegenerative disease
Nathan Goodyear

Cell Research - Sirtuin deacetylases in neurodegenerative diseases of aging - 0 views

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    Sirtuins and neurodegenerative diseases
Nathan Goodyear

Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in ... [Biochem Mol Biol Int. 1994] - Pu... - 0 views

  • neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress may cause or worsen the clinical features.
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    mitochondrial dysfunction contributes, even cause many neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson's
Nathan Goodyear

Coenzyme Q10 in the central nervous system and its... [Mol Aspects Med. 1997] - PubMed ... - 0 views

  • These findings suggest that coenzyme Q10 might be useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases.
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    CoQ10 useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases
Nathan Goodyear

Coenzyme Q10 administration and its potential for ... [Biofactors. 1999] - PubMed result - 0 views

  • hese studies therefore raise the prospect that administration of CoQ10 may be useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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    CoQ10 may be used to slow progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinson's, ALS...
Nathan Goodyear

Molecular mechanisms of excitotoxicity and their r... [Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2009] - PubM... - 0 views

  • is review discusses the current understanding of excitotoxic mechanisms and how they are involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.
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    nice review on excitotoxicity and neurodegenerative diseases
Nathan Goodyear

Ketogenic Diet in Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases - 0 views

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    I like this review of a ketogenic diet.  This article discusses the use and benefits in neurodegenerative disease.
Nathan Goodyear

Potential Therapeutic Effects of Curcumin, the Anti-inflammatory Agent, Against Neurode... - 0 views

  • The starting dose was 500 mg/day and if no toxicity was noted, the dose was then escalated to another level in the order of 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, 8,000, and 12,000 mg/day. There was no treatment-related toxicity up to 8 g/day but the bulky volume of the drug was unacceptable to the patients beyond 8 g/day.
  • The serum concentration of curcumin usually peaked at 1 to 2 hours after oral intake of curcumin and gradually declined within 12 hours
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    Great article on the benefits of curcumin in therapy for inflammation and disease.
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Nathan Goodyear

Coenzyme Q10 in neuromuscular and neurodegenerativ... [Curr Drug Targets. 2010] - PubMe... - 0 views

  • a deficit in CoQ10 status has been determined in a number of neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders
  • A secondary loss of CoQ10 status following HMG-Coa reductase inhibitor (statins) treatment has be implicated in the pathophysiology of the myotoxicity associated with this pharmacotherapy
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    CoQ10 contributes to neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS..., in some
Nathan Goodyear

Coenzyme Q10 effects in neurodegenerative disease. [Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2009] - P... - 0 views

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    CoQ10 shown to be beneficial in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, in animal models
Nathan Goodyear

Microglial cells in neurodegenerative disorders. [Folia Neuropathol. 2005] - PubMed result - 0 views

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    nice article on microglial cells and how they contribute to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative diseases
Nathan Goodyear

Mitochondrial DNA damage and repair in neurodegene... [DNA Repair (Amst). 2008] - PubMe... - 0 views

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    mitochondria dysfunction at core of aging and neurodegenerative disease
Nathan Goodyear

The role of excitotoxicity in neurodegenerative di... [Pharmacol Ther. 1999] - PubMed r... - 0 views

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    excitotoxicity and contribution to neurodegenerative disease
Nathan Goodyear

Mitochondrial pathobiology in Parkinson's disease ... [J Alzheimers Dis. 2010] - PubMed... - 0 views

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    mitochondria and contribution to neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease and ALS
Nathan Goodyear

Exposure to the Functional Bacterial Amyloid Protein Curli Enhances Alpha-Synuclein Agg... - 0 views

  • Our work suggests that protein misfolding and immune activation in neurodegenerative disorders are triggered through cross-seeding by exposure to exogenous microbial amyloids in the nose, mouth and gut.
  • Streptococcus mutans, Staphlococcus aureus, Salmonella enterica, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and others
  • Gene homologs encoding curli were recently determined also in four phyla: Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Thermodesulfobacteria
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  • changes in the gut microbiota induced by antibiotics alter neuroinflammation and amyloid deposition in a mouse model of AD
  • Our data suggest that amyloid proteins in the microbiota are involved in the origination and maintenance of neurodegenerative disease.
  • exposure to bacteria producing a functional extracellular amyloid protein enhances aggregation of AS in brain neurons in aged rats and in muscle cells in nematodes
  • AS aggregates seed aggregation of tau
  • involvement of the vagus nerve in PD
  • microgliosis, astrogliosis and enhanced expression of IL-6, TLR2 and TNF in the brain following curli exposure suggest the occurrence of an enhanced local sterile inflammatory response to AS in the brain.
  • the immune system in both AD and PD have now been extensively established
  • TLR2 activation through exposure to bacterial amyloid is pathogenic
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    Gut bacteria may play crucial role in systemic inflammation that leads to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.  These amyloid production bacteria trigger systemic inflammation that leads to microglia activation and amyloid in the brain.   More establishment of the gut-brain connection.  
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