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Jan F. C. Glatz is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with specific focus on Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their work also intersects with Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Physiology.

The main topics of Glatz's research include:

  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders

Frequently coauthoring with others, Glatz's close collaborators include:

  • Miranda Nabben
  • Joost J.F.P. Luiken
  • Dietbert Neumann
  • Francesco Schianchi
  • Shujin Wang

Their publications appear often in specialized journals, including multiple papers in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and notable contributions to Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, The FASEB Journal, Physiological Reviews, and Molecular Metabolism.

Representative recent papers include:

  • "CD36 as a gatekeeper of myocardial lipid metabolism and therapeutic target for metabolic disease" (2023), published in Physiological Reviews
  • "Specific amino acid supplementation rescues the heart from lipid overload-induced insulin resistance and contractile dysfunction by targeting the endosomal mTOR-v-ATPase axis" (2021), published in Molecular Metabolism
  • "Understanding the distinct subcellular trafficking of CD36 and GLUT4 during the development of myocardial insulin resistance" (2020), published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
  • "CD36 (SR-B2) as a Target to Treat Lipid Overload-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction" (2020), published in Journal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis
  • "Time for a détente in the war on the mechanism of cellular fatty acid uptake" (2020), published in Journal of Lipid Research

Best Publications

  • Membrane Fatty Acid Transporters as Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Implications for Metabolic Disease

    Jan F. C. Glatz;Joost J. F. P. Luiken;Arend Bonen

  • Cellular fatty acid-binding proteins: Their function and physiological significance

    Jan F.C. Glatz;Ger J. van der Vusse

  • Fatty acid-binding proteins as plasma markers of tissue injury

    Maurice M.A.L. Pelsers;Wim T. Hermens;Jan F.C. Glatz

  • Fatty acid homeostasis in the normoxic and ischemic heart.

    G. J. Van Der Vusse;J. F. C. Glatz;H. C. G. Stam;R. S. Reneman

  • Triacylglycerol accumulation in human obesity and type 2 diabetes is associated with increased rates of skeletal muscle fatty acid transport and increased sarcolemmal FAT/CD36.

    Arend Bonen;Michelle L. Parolin;Gregory R. Steinberg;Jorge Calles-Escandon

  • Acute regulation of fatty acid uptake involves the cellular redistribution of fatty acid translocase.

    Arend Bonen;Joost J. F.P. Luiken;Joost J. F.P. Luiken;Yoga Arumugam;Jan F.C. Glatz

  • Intestinal-type and liver-type fatty acid-binding protein in the intestine. Tissue distribution and clinical utility

    Maurice M.A.L Pelsers;Zbigniew Namiot;Wojciech Kisielewski;Andrzej Namiot

  • Cardiac fatty acid uptake and transport in health and disease.

    G. J. van der Vusse;M. van Bilsen;J. F. C. Glatz

  • Serum lathosterol concentration is an indicator of whole-body cholesterol synthesis in humans.

    H.J.M. Kempen;J.F.C. Glatz;J.A. Gevers Leuven;H.A. van der Voort

  • Release of heart fatty acid-binding protein into plasma after acute myocardial infarction in man

    Appie H. Kleine;Jan F. C. Glatz;Frans A. Van Nieuwenhoven;Ger J. Van der Vusse

  • Contraction-induced fatty acid translocase/CD36 translocation in rat cardiac myocytes is mediated through AMP-activated protein kinase signaling

    Joost J.F.P. Luiken;Susan L.M. Coort;Jodil Willems;Will A. Coumans

  • Increased rates of fatty acid uptake and plasmalemmal fatty acid transporters in obese Zucker rats.

    Joost J.F.P. Luiken;Yoga Arumugam;David J. Dyck;Rhonda C. Bell

  • A novel function for fatty acid translocase (FAT)/CD36: involvement in long chain fatty acid transfer into the mitochondria.

    Shannon E. Campbell;Narendra N. Tandon;Gebretateos Woldegiorgis;Joost J.F.P. Luiken

  • Palmitate transport and fatty acid transporters in red and white muscles

    A. Bonen;J. J. F. P. Luiken;S. Liu;D. J. Dyck

  • Fatty acid transport across the cell membrane: Regulation by fatty acid transporters

    Robert W. Schwenk;Graham P. Holloway;Joost J.F.P. Luiken;Arend Bonen

  • Cardiac dysfunction and cell damage across clinical stages of severity in growth-restricted fetuses.

    Fatima Crispi;Fatima Crispi;Edgar Hernandez-Andrade;Maurice M.A.L. Pelsers;Walter Plasencia

  • Insulin Stimulates Long-Chain Fatty Acid Utilization by Rat Cardiac Myocytes Through Cellular Redistribution of FAT/CD36

    Joost J.F.P. Luiken;Debby P.Y. Koonen;Jodil Willems;Antonio Zorzano

  • Discrimination between myocardial and skeletal muscle injury by assessment of the plasma ratio of myoglobin over fatty acid-binding protein.

    Frans A. Van Nieuwenhoven;Appie H. Kleine;K. Will H. Wodzig;Wim T. Hermens

  • Long-chain fatty acid uptake and FAT/CD36 translocation in heart and skeletal muscle.

    Debby P.Y. Koonen;Jan F.C. Glatz;Arend Bonen;Joost J.F.P. Luiken;Joost J.F.P. Luiken

  • Mechanisms and Regulation of Protein-Mediated Cellular Fatty Acid Uptake: Molecular, Biochemical, and Physiological Evidence

    Arend Bonen;Adrian Chabowski;Joost J. F. P Luiken;Jan F. C. Glatz

Frequent Co-Authors

Joost J. F. P. Luiken
Joost J. F. P. Luiken Maastricht University
Arend Bonen
Arend Bonen University of Guelph
Narendra N. Tandon
Narendra N. Tandon Cellphire Therapeutics
Patrick Schrauwen
Patrick Schrauwen Maastricht University
Matthijs K. C. Hesselink
Matthijs K. C. Hesselink Maastricht University
Frank Buntinx
Frank Buntinx KU Leuven
Wim H. M. Saris
Wim H. M. Saris Maastricht University
Han G. Brunner
Han G. Brunner Radboud University
Ellen E. Blaak
Ellen E. Blaak Maastricht University
Nada A. Abumrad
Nada A. Abumrad Washington University in St. Louis

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