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Javier Gómez-Ambrosi

Javier Gómez-Ambrosi

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Medicine

D-Index
77
Citations
19705
World Ranking
18503
National Ranking
260

Overview

Javier Gómez-Ambrosi is affiliated with the University of Navarra in Spain. Their academic work centers around medicine, with a primary focus on physiology, epidemiology, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and immunology. Their research contributions span a total of 144 publications in medicine, including 52 in physiology and 21 in epidemiology.

The scientist's research covers multiple interconnected topics, primarily in the areas of diet and metabolism studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases. Additional subjects include bariatric surgery and outcomes, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, regulation of appetite and obesity, and pharmacology and obesity treatment.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Gómez-Ambrosi's most common co-authors include:

  • Gema Frühbeck
  • Victoria Catalán
  • Amaia Rodríguez
  • Sara Becerril
  • Camilo Silva

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals with repeated contributions to:

  • Nutrients
  • European Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
  • Metabolism

Recent selected papers include:

  • "Relevance of body composition in phenotyping the obesities," 2023, Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
  • "Time to Consider the "Exposome Hypothesis" in the Development of the Obesity Pandemic," 2022, Nutrients
  • "FNDC4, a novel adipokine that reduces lipogenesis and promotes fat browning in human visceral adipocytes," 2020, Metabolism
  • "The Potential of the Mediterranean Diet to Improve Mitochondrial Function in Experimental Models of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome," 2022, Nutrients
  • "FNDC4 and FNDC5 reduce SARS-CoV-2 entry points and spike glycoprotein S1-induced pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis in human adipocytes," 2021, Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Best Publications

  • The adipocyte: A model for integration of endocrine and metabolic signaling in energy metabolism regulation

    Gema Frühbeck;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Francisco José Muruzábal;María Angela Burrell

  • Body mass index classification misses subjects with increased cardiometabolic risk factors related to elevated adiposity

    J Gómez-Ambrosi;C Silva;J C Galofré;J Escalada

  • Adipokine dysregulation and adipose tissue inflammation in human obesity

    Xabier Unamuno;Xabier Unamuno;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Amaia Rodríguez;Amaia Rodríguez;Sara Becerril;Sara Becerril

  • Targeting the Circulating MicroRNA Signature of Obesity

    Francisco José Ortega;Josep María Mercader;Victoria Catalán;Victoria Catalán;José María Moreno-Navarrete

  • Insulin- and Leptin-Mediated Control of Aquaglyceroporins in Human Adipocytes and Hepatocytes Is Mediated via the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Cascade

    Amaia Rodríguez;Victoria Catalán;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Socorro García-Navarro

  • Body Adiposity and Type 2 Diabetes: Increased Risk With a High Body Fat Percentage Even Having a Normal BMI

    Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Camilo Silva;Camilo Silva;Juan C. Galofré;Javier Escalada

  • Circulating omentin concentration increases after weight loss

    José María Moreno-Navarrete;Victoria Catalán;Francisco A Ortega;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi

  • The relationship of serum osteocalcin concentration to insulin secretion, sensitivity and disposal with hypocaloric diet and resistance training

    Jose Manuel Fernández-Real;Mikel Izquierdo;Francisco Ortega;Esteban Gorostiaga

  • Adiponectin-leptin ratio: A promising index to estimate adipose tissue dysfunction. Relation with obesity-associated cardiometabolic risk

    Gema Frühbeck;Victoria Catalán;Amaia Rodríguez;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi

  • Clinical Usefulness of a New Equation for Estimating Body Fat

    Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Camilo Silva;Victoria Catalán;Amaia Rodríguez

  • Executive Functions Profile in Extreme Eating/Weight Conditions: From Anorexia Nervosa to Obesity

    Ana B. Fagundo;Rafael de la Torre;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Susana Jiménez-Murcia;Zaida Agüera

  • Association of irisin with fat mass, resting energy expenditure, and daily activity in conditions of extreme body mass index.

    María Pardo;Ana B. Crujeiras;María Amil;Zaida Aguera

  • Plasma osteopontin levels and expression in adipose tissue are increased in obesity.

    Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Victoria Catalán;Beatriz Ramírez;Amaia Rodríguez

  • Acylated and desacyl ghrelin stimulate lipid accumulation in human visceral adipocytes

    A Rodríguez;A Rodríguez;J Gómez-Ambrosi;J Gómez-Ambrosi;V Catalán;V Catalán;M J Gil;M J Gil

  • Proinflammatory cytokines in obesity: impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus and gastric bypass.

    Victoria Catalán;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Beatriz Ramirez;Fernando Rotellar

  • Opposite alterations in FGF21 and FGF19 levels and disturbed expression of the receptor machinery for endocrine FGFs in obese patients

    J M Gallego-Escuredo;J Gómez-Ambrosi;V Catalan;P Domingo

  • Circulating betatrophin concentrations are decreased in human obesity and type 2 diabetes.

    Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Eider Pascual;Victoria Catalán;Amaia Rodríguez

  • Increased adipose tissue expression of lipocalin-2 in obesity is related to inflammation and matrix metalloproteinase-2 and metalloproteinase-9 activities in humans

    V. Catalán;J. Gómez-Ambrosi;A. Rodríguez;B. Ramírez

  • Adiponectin-leptin Ratio is a Functional Biomarker of Adipose Tissue Inflammation.

    Gema Frühbeck;Victoria Catalán;Victoria Catalán;Amaia Rodríguez;Amaia Rodríguez;Beatriz Ramírez;Beatriz Ramírez

  • The decrease in plasma ghrelin concentrations following bariatric surgery depends on the functional integrity of the fundus.

    Gema Frühbeck;Alberto Diez-Caballero;M Jesús Gil;Inés Montero

Frequent Co-Authors

Gema Frühbeck
Gema Frühbeck University of Navarra
José Manuel Fernández-Real
José Manuel Fernández-Real University of Girona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Rosa M. Baños
Rosa M. Baños University of Valencia
Francisco J. Tinahones
Francisco J. Tinahones University of Malaga
Rafael de la Torre
Rafael de la Torre Pompeu Fabra University
Cristina Botella
Cristina Botella Jaume I University
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Zaida Agüera
Zaida Agüera University of Barcelona

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