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    • A nucleotide-based drug protects against glutamate- and MPP+ -induced neurotoxicity 

      Gella Concustell, Alejandro; Martiáñez Canales, Tània; Lamarca Dams, Aloa; Gutierrez, Cristina; Durany, Nuria; Casals i Farré, Núria (Neuroscience & Medicine, 2011)
      Nucleo CMP Forte® is a nucleotide-based drug consisting of cytidinemonophosphate, uridinemonophosphate, uridin-ediphosphate and uridinetriphosphate. It has been prescribed for peripheral nervous system ...

    • Aberrantly spliced mRNAs of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A lyase (HL) gene with a donor splice-site point mutation produce hereditary HL deficiency 

      Buesa, Carlos; Pié, Juan; Barceló, Ana; Casals i Farré, Núria; Mascaró, Cristina; Casale, César H.; Haro, Diego; Duran, Marinus; Smeitink, Jan A. M.; Hegardt, Fausto G. (Journal of Lipid Research, 1996-11)
      A novel point mutation in the 3-hydroxy-3methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A lyase gene was found in a Turkish patient with homozygous 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric acidemia. Amplification by RT-PCR of the mRNA ...

    • Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in grey and white matter regions of the brain metabolize fatty acids 

      Hofmann, Kristina; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rosalía; Gaebler, Anne; Casals i Farré, Núria; Scheller, Anja; Kuerschner, Lars (Scientific Reports, 2017-09-07)
      The grey and white matter regions of the mammalian brain consist of both neurons and neuroglial cells. Among the neuroglia, the two macroglia oligodendrocytes and astrocytes are the most abundant cell ...

    • Blattella germanica has two HMG-CoA synthase genes. Both are regulated in the ovary during the gonadotrophic cycle 

      Buesa, Carlos; Martínez-Gonzalez, José; Casals i Farré, Núria; Haro, Diego; Piulachs, Maria-Dolors; Bellés, Xavier; Hegardt, Fausto G. (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1994-04-22)
      The isoprenoid pathway leads to various essential non-sterol products in insects. These end products have a crucial role in growth, differentiation, sexual maturation, and reproduction. 3-Hydroxy-3-me ...

    • Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1C negatively regulates the endocannabinoid hydrolase ABHD6 in mice, depending on nutritional status 

      Miralpeix Monclús, Cristina; Reguera, Ana Cristina; Fosch, Anna; Casas, Maria; Lillo, Jaume; Navarro, Gemma; Franco, Rafael; Casas, Josefina; Alexander, Stephen P.H.; Casals i Farré, Núria; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rosalía (British Journal of Pharmacology, 2021-01)
      Background and Purpose: The enzyme α/β‐hydrolase domain containing 6 (ABHD6), a new member of the endocannabinoid system, is a promising therapeutic target against neuronal‐related diseases. However, ...

    • Central ceramide-induced hypothalamic lipotoxicity and ER stress regulate energy balance 

      Contreras, Cristina; González-García, Ismael; Martínez-Sánchez, Noelia; Seoane-Collazo, Patricia; Jacas i Mateu, Jordi; Morgan, Donald A.; Serra, Dolors; Gallego, Rosalía; Gonzalez, Francisco; Casals i Farré, Núria; Nogueiras, Rubén; Rahmouni, Kamal; Diéguez, Carlos; López, Miguel (Cell Reports, 2014-10)
      Hypothalamic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is a key mechanism leading to obesity. Here, we demonstrate that ceramides induce lipotoxicity and hypothalamic ER stress, leading to sympathetic inhibition, ...

    • Characterization of a novel HMG-CoA lyase enzyme with a dual location in endoplasmic reticulum and cytosol 

      Arnedo, María; Menao, Sebastián; Puisac, Beatriz; Teresa-Rodrigo, María E.; Gil-Rodríguez, María C.; López-Viñas, Eduardo; Gómez-Puertas, Paulino; Casals i Farré, Núria; Casale, César H.; Hegardt, Fausto G.; Pié, Juan (Journal of Lipid Research, 2012)
      A novel lyase activity enzyme is characterized for the first time: HMG-CoA lyase-like1 (er-cHL), which is a close homolog of mitochondrial HMG-CoA lyase (mHL). Initial data show that there are nine ...

    • CPT1C in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus is necessary for brown fat thermogenesis activation in obesity 

      Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rosalía; Miralpeix Monclús, Cristina; Fosch, Anna; Pozo Ariza, Macarena; Calderón-Domínguez, María; Perpinyà, Xavier; Vellvehí, Miquel; López, Miguel; Herrero Rodríguez, Laura; Serra, Dolors; Casals i Farré, Núria (Molecular Metabolism, 2019-01)
      Objective: Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1C (CPT1C) is implicated in central regulation of energy homeostasis. Our aim was to investigate whether CPT1C in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus ...

    • CPT1c is localized in endoplasmic reticulum of neurons and has carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity 

      Sierra, Adriana Y.; Gratacòs-Batlle, Esther; Carrasco, Patricia; Clotet Erra, Josep; Ureña, Jesús; Serra, Dolors; Asins, Guillermina; Hegardt, Fausto G.; Casals i Farré, Núria (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008)
      CPT1c is a carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1) isoform that is expressed only in the brain. The enzyme has recently been localized in neuron mitochondria. Although it has high sequence identity with ...

    • CPT1C promotes human mesenchymal stem cells survival under glucose deprivation through the modulation of autophagy 

      Roa Mansergas, Xavier; Fadó Andrés, Rut; Atari Abouassi, Maher; Mir, Joan Francesc; Muley Vilamú, Helena; Serra, Dolors; Casals i Farré, Núria (Scientific Reports, 2018-05-03)
      Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are widely used in regenerative medicine. In some applications, they must survive under low nutrient conditions engendered by avascularity. Strategies to improve ...

    • CPT1C-ABHD6 interaction in hypothalamic neurons: implications for bis (monoacylglycero) phosphate metabolism and the endolysosomal system 

      Reguera Moreno, Ana Cristina (Date of defense: 2024-02-14)
      El sistema endolisosomal juga un paper crític en la funció neuronal i ha emergit com a un potencial objectiu per al tractament de diverses malalties neuronals, com els trastorns neurodegeneratius i fins ...

    • Defective in mitotic arrest 1 (Dma1) ubiquitin ligase controls G1 cyclin degradation 

      Hernández-Ortega, Sara; Bru Rullo, Samuel; Ricco Pacheco, Natalia; Ramírez, Sara; Casals i Farré, Núria; Jiménez, Javier; Isasa, Marta; Crosas, Bernat; Clotet Erra, Josep (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013-02)
      Progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle is controlled by diverse cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) that might be associated to numerous cyclin isoforms. Given such complexity, regulation of ...

    • Dental pulp of the third molar: a new source of pluripotent-like stem cells 

      Atari, Maher; Gil Recio, Carlos; Fabregat Navarro, Marc; García Fernández, Daniel; Barajas Vélez, Miguel; Carrasco Garcia, Miguel Ángel ; Jung, Han-Sung; Hernández Alfaro, Federico; Casals i Farré, Núria; Prósper, Felipe; Ferrés-Padró, Eduard; Giner-Tarrida, Luis (Journal of Cell Science, 2012-09-05)
      Dental pulp is particularly interesting in regenerative medicine because of the accessibility and differentiation potential of the tissue. Dental pulp has an early developmental origin with multi-lineage ...

    • Differential HMG‐CoA lyase expression in human tissues provides clues about 3‐hydroxy‐3‐methylglutaric aciduria 

      Puisac, Beatriz; Arnedo, María; Casale, César H.; Ribate, María Pilar; Castiella, Tomás; Ramos, Feliciano J.; Ribes, Antònia; Pérez-Cerdá, Celia; Casals i Farré, Núria; Hegardt, Fausto G.; Pié, Juan (Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 2010)
      3‐Hydroxy‐3‐methylglutaric aciduria is a rare human autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficiency of 3‐hydroxy‐3‐methylglutaryl CoA lyase (HL). This mitochondrial enzyme catalyzes the common final ...

    • Estudio del fármaco CMP Forte y del nucleótido UTP en células de Schwann 

      Martiáñez Canales, Tània (Date of defense: 2012-02-23)
      Las neuropatías periféricas representan una de las mayores complicaciones del SNP. Pocos son los fármacos efectivos para su tratamiento y la mayoría se basan en el tratamiento del dolor. Núcleo CMP ...

    • Ghrelin causes a decline in GABA release by reducing fatty acid oxidation in cortex 

      Mir, Joan Francesc; Zagmutt, Sebastián; Lichtenstein, Mathieu P.; García-Villoria, Judit; Weber, Minéia; Gracia, Ana; Fabriàs, Gemma; Casas, Josefina; López, Miguel; Casals i Farré, Núria; Ribes, Antònia; Suñol, Cristina; Herrero Rodríguez, Laura; Serra, Dolors (Springer Nature, 2018)
      Lipid metabolism, specifically fatty acid oxidation (FAO) mediated by carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) 1A, has been described to be an important actor of ghrelin action in hypothalamus. However, it ...

    • Hypothalamic AMPK-ER Stress-JNK1 axis mediates the central actions of thyroid hormones on energy balance 

      Martinez-Sanchez, Noelia; Seoane-Collazo, Patricia; Contreras, Cristina; Varela, Luis; Villarroya, Joan; Rial-Pensado, Eva; Buque, Xabier; Aurrekoetxea, Igor; Delgado, Teresa C.; Vazquez-Martinez, Rafael; Gonzalez-Garcia, Ismael; Roa, Juan; Whittle, Andrew J.; Gomez-Santos, Beatriz; Velagapudi, Vidya; Loraine Tung, Y. C.; Morgan, Donald A.; Voshol, Peter J.; Martinez de Morentin, Pablo B.; Lopez-Gonzalez, Tania; Linares-Pose, Laura; Gonzalez, Francisco; Chatterjee, Krishna; Sobrino, Tomas; Medina-Gomez, Gema; Davis, Roger J.; Casals i Farré, Núria; Oresic, Matej; Coll, Anthony P.; Vidal-Puig, Antonio; Mittag, Jens; Tena-Sempere, Manuel; Malagon, Maria M.; Dieguez, Carlos; Martinez-Chantar, Maria Luz; Aspichueta, Patricia; Rahmouni, Kamal; Nogueiras, Rubén; Sabio, Guadalupe; Villarroya, Francesc; Lopez, Miguel (Cell Metabolism, 2017-07)
      Thyroid hormones (THs) act in the brain to modulate energy balance. We show that central triiodothyronine (T3) regulates de novo lipogenesis in liver and lipid oxidation in brown adipose tissue (BAT) ...

    • Hypothalamic endocannabinoids in obesity: an old story with new challenges 

      Miralpeix , Cristina; Reguera, Ana Cristina; Fosch, Anna; Zagmutt, Sebastián; Casals i Farré, Núria; Cota, Daniela; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rosalía (Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021)
      The crucial role of the hypothalamus in the pathogenesis of obesity is widely recognized, while the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms involved are the focus of intense research. A disrupted ...

    • Hypothalamic endocannabinoids inversely correlate with the development of diet-induced obesity in male and female mice 

      Miralpeix Monclús, Cristina; Fosch, Anna; Casas, Josefina; Baena, Miguel; Herrero Rodríguez, Laura; Serra, Dolors; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Rosalía; Casals i Farré, Núria (Journal of Lipid Research, 2019-07)
      The endocannabinoid (eCB) system regulates energy homeostasis and is linked to obesity development. However, the exact dynamic and regulation of eCBs in the hypothalamus during obesity progression remain ...

    • Identification of conserved amino acid residues in rat liver carnitine palmitoyltransferase I critical for malonyl-CoA inhibition. Mutation of methionine 593 abolishes malonyl-CoA inhibition 

      Morillas, Montserrat; Gómez-Puertas, Paulino; Bentebibel, Assia; Sellés, Eva; Casals i Farré, Núria; Valencia, Alfonso; Hegardt, Fausto G.; Asins, Guillermina; Serra, Dolors (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003-03-14)
      Carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) I, which catalyzes the conversion of palmitoyl-CoA to palmitoylcarnitine facilitating its transport through the mitochondrial membranes, is inhibited by malonyl-CoA. ...