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Fabienne Foufelle

Fabienne Foufelle

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Medicine

D-Index
74
Citations
33361
World Ranking
19269
National Ranking
647

Overview

Fabienne Foufelle is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has a research focus primarily centered on medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their published work spans a number of interconnected fields including molecular biology, epidemiology, surgery, cell biology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their research encompasses numerous main topics related to liver and metabolic health. These include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling
  • Pancreatic Function and Diabetes
  • Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension

Fabienne Foufelle has published regularly in several scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include Cardiovascular Diabetology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biochemical Journal, Journal of Clinical Medicine, and Scientific Reports.

Recent publications highlight their research interests and contributions to the field:

  • SREBP-1c and lipogenesis in the liver: an update, 2021, Biochemical Journal
  • Roles of Ceramides in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Hepatic stellate cell hypertrophy is associated with metabolic liver fibrosis, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Dihydroceramides: their emerging physiological roles and functions in cancer and metabolic diseases, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Dihydroceramides in Triglyceride-Enriched VLDL Are Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Severity in Type 2 Diabetes, 2020, Cell Reports Medicine

Collaborative work forms a notable part of Foufelle's research practice, with frequent co-authors including Franck Phan, Pascal Ferré, Floriane Lachkar, Olivier Bourron, and Éric Hajduch. These collaborations reflect involvement in both metabolic and molecular aspects of liver disease and endocrinology.

Best Publications

  • Adiponectin stimulates glucose utilization and fatty-acid oxidation by activating AMP-activated protein kinase

    T Yamauchi;J Kamon;Y Minokoshi;Y Ito

  • Differential expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs): tissue distribution of PPAR-alpha, -beta, and -gamma in the adult rat

    O Braissant;F Foufelle;C Scotto;M Dauça

  • AMP-kinase regulates food intake by responding to hormonal and nutrient signals in the hypothalamus

    Yasuhiko Minokoshi;Thierry Alquier;Noboru Furukawa;Young-Bum Kim

  • SREBP transcription factors: master regulators of lipid homeostasis.

    Delphine Eberlé;Bronwyn Hegarty;Pascale Bossard;Pascal Ferré

  • Sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c is a major mediator of insulin action on the hepatic expression of glucokinase and lipogenesis-related genes

    Marc Foretz;Colette Guichard;Pascal Ferré;Fabienne Foufelle

  • GRP78 expression inhibits insulin and ER stress-induced SREBP-1c activation and reduces hepatic steatosis in mice.

    Hélène L. Kammoun;Hervé Chabanon;Isabelle Hainault;Serge Luquet

  • Hepatic steatosis: a role for de novo lipogenesis and the transcription factor SREBP-1c

    P. Ferré;F. Foufelle

  • Endoplasmic reticulum stress, obesity and diabetes

    Miriam Cnop;Miriam Cnop;Fabienne Foufelle;Licio A. Velloso

  • Molecular phenomics and metagenomics of hepatic steatosis in non-diabetic obese women.

    Lesley Hoyles;José-Manuel Fernández-Real;Massimo Federici;Matteo Serino;Matteo Serino

  • New perspectives in the regulation of hepatic glycolytic and lipogenic genes by insulin and glucose: a role for the transcription factor sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c.

    Fabienne Foufelle;Pascal Ferré

  • ADD1/SREBP-1c Is Required in the Activation of Hepatic Lipogenic Gene Expression by Glucose

    Marc Foretz;Corinne Pacot;Isabelle Dugail;Patricia Lemarchand

  • Characterization of the Role of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in the Regulation of Glucose-Activated Gene Expression Using Constitutively Active and Dominant Negative Forms of the Kinase

    Angela Woods;Dalila Azzout-Marniche;Marc Foretz;Silvie C. Stein

  • Liver-Specific Inhibition of ChREBP Improves Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Resistance in ob/ob Mice

    Renaud Dentin;Fadila Benhamed;Isabelle Hainault;Véronique Fauveau

  • Hepatic glucokinase is required for the synergistic action of ChREBP and SREBP-1c on glycolytic and lipogenic gene expression.

    Renaud Dentin;Jean-Paul Pégorier;Fadila Benhamed;Fabienne Foufelle

  • SREBP-1c transcription factor and lipid homeostasis: clinical perspective.

    P. Ferré;F. Foufelle

  • Functions of AMP‐activated protein kinase in adipose tissue

    Marie Daval;Marie Daval;Fabienne Foufelle;Fabienne Foufelle;Pascal Ferré;Pascal Ferré

  • Direct Activation of AMP-activated Protein Kinase Stimulates Nitric-oxide Synthesis in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells *

    Valerie A. Morrow;Valerie A. Morrow;Fabienne Foufelle;John M.C. Connell;John R. Petrie

  • MECHANISMS BY WHICH CARBOHYDRATES REGULATE EXPRESSION OF GENES FOR GLYCOLYTIC AND LIPOGENIC ENZYMES

    Jean Girard;Pascal Ferré;Fabienne Foufelle

  • Anti-lipolytic action of AMP-activated protein kinase in rodent adipocytes.

    Marie Daval;Francine Diot-Dupuy;Raymond Bazin;Isabelle Hainault

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acids suppress glycolytic and lipogenic genes through the inhibition of ChREBP nuclear protein translocation

    Renaud Dentin;Fadila Benhamed;Jean-Paul Pégorier;Fabienne Foufelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Ferré
Pascal Ferré Sorbonne University
Eric Hajduch
Eric Hajduch European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Catherine Postic
Catherine Postic Institut Cochin
Marc Foretz
Marc Foretz Université Paris Cité
Valérie Paradis
Valérie Paradis Université Paris Cité
David Carling
David Carling Imperial College London
Nathalie M. Delzenne
Nathalie M. Delzenne Université Catholique de Louvain

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