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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Antonio Vidal-Puig is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans several subfields of study including physiology, epidemiology, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis

Antonio Vidal-Puig has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Transcriptomic profiling across the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease spectrum reveals gene signatures for steatohepatitis and fibrosis, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Adipose Tissue-Liver Cross Talk in the Control of Whole-Body Metabolism: Implications in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • GTTs and ITTs in mice: simple tests, complex answers, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • An unbiased ranking of murine dietary models based on their proximity to human metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), 2024, Nature Metabolism
  • An adipocentric perspective on the development and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, 2023, Journal of Hepatology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Antonio Vidal-Puig include:

  • Sam Virtue
  • Stefania Carobbio
  • Michèle Vacca
  • Guillaume Bidault
  • Sergio Rodríguez-Cuenca

The main venues publishing this scientist's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Molecular Metabolism
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Nature Communications

Among awards, Antonio Vidal-Puig has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The organization, promoter analysis, and expression of the human PPARgamma gene.

    Lluis Fajas;Didier Auboeuf;Eric Raspé;Kristina Schoonjans

  • Uncoupling Protein-2 Negatively Regulates Insulin Secretion and Is a Major Link between Obesity, β Cell Dysfunction, and Type 2 Diabetes

    Chen-Yu Zhang;György Baffy;György Baffy;Pascale Perret;Stefan Krauss

  • Resistin / Fizz3 Expression in Relation to Obesity and Peroxisome Proliferator - Activated Receptor-γ Action in Humans

    David B. Savage;Ciaran P. Sewter;Ellen S. Klenk;David G. Segal

  • Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gene expression in human tissues. Effects of obesity, weight loss, and regulation by insulin and glucocorticoids.

    Antonio J. Vidal-Puig;Robert Considine;Mercedes Jimenez-Liñan;Ariel Werman

  • Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the Metabolic Syndrome — An allostatic perspective

    Sam Virtue;Antonio Vidal-Puig

  • UCP3: An Uncoupling Protein Homologue Expressed Preferentially and Abundantly in Skeletal Muscle and Brown Adipose Tissue

    Antonio Vidal-Puig;Gemma Solanes;Danica Grujic;Jeffrey S. Flier

  • Regulation of PPAR gamma gene expression by nutrition and obesity in rodents.

    A Vidal-Puig;M Jimenez-Liñan;B B Lowell;A Hamann

  • Energy metabolism in uncoupling protein 3 gene knockout mice.

    Antonio J. Vidal-Puig;Danica Grujic;Chen-Yu Zhang;Thilo Hagen

  • Hypothalamic AMPK and fatty acid metabolism mediate thyroid regulation of energy balance

    Miguel González López;Miguel González López;Luis Varela;María J. Sánchez Vazquez;Sergio Rodriguez-Cuenca

  • Thematic review series: Adipocyte Biology. Adipose tissue function and plasticity orchestrate nutritional adaptation

    Jaswinder K. Sethi;Antonio J. Vidal-Puig

  • A signalling role for 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal in regulation of mitochondrial uncoupling

    Karim S. Echtay;Telma C. Esteves;Julian L. Pakay;Mika B. Jekabsons

  • Mitochondria are required for pro‐ageing features of the senescent phenotype

    Clara Correia-Melo;Clara Correia-Melo;Francisco D.M. Marques;Rhys Anderson;Graeme Hewitt

  • Adipogenesis and WNT signalling.

    Constantinos Christodoulides;Claire Lagathu;Jaswinder K. Sethi;Antonio Vidal-Puig

  • AMPK: a metabolic gauge regulating whole-body energy homeostasis.

    Ricardo Lage;Carlos Diéguez;Antonio Vidal-Puig;Miguel López

  • BMP8B Increases Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis through Both Central and Peripheral Actions

    Andrew J. Whittle;Stefania Carobbio;Luís Martins;Marc Slawik;Marc Slawik

  • Human Metabolic Syndrome Resulting From Dominant-Negative Mutations in the Nuclear Receptor Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ

    David B. Savage;Garry D. Tan;Carlo L. Acerini;Susan A. Jebb

  • Hypothalamic fatty acid metabolism mediates the orexigenic action of ghrelin.

    Miguel Lopez;Ricardo Lage;Asish K Saha;Diego Perez-Tilve

  • The different shades of fat

    Vivian Peirce;Stefania Carobbio;Antonio Vidal-Puig

  • PPAR gamma 2 Prevents Lipotoxicity by Controlling Adipose Tissue Expandability and Peripheral Lipid Metabolism

    Gema Medina-Gomez;Sarah L Gray;Laxman Yetukuri;Kenju Shimomura

  • Nuclear receptor corepressor RIP140 regulates fat accumulation.

    Göran Leonardsson;Jenny H. Steel;Mark Christian;Victoria Pocock

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen O'Rahilly
Stephen O'Rahilly University of Cambridge
Matej Orešič
Matej Orešič Örebro University
Miguel López
Miguel López University of Santiago de Compostela
Julian L. Griffin
Julian L. Griffin University of Aberdeen
Carlos Dieguez
Carlos Dieguez University of Santiago de Compostela
José Manuel Fernández-Real
José Manuel Fernández-Real University of Girona
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Rubén Nogueiras
Rubén Nogueiras University of Santiago de Compostela
Martin D. Brand
Martin D. Brand Buck Institute for Research on Aging

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