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Record W4411138893 · doi:10.1152/physrev.00024.2024

Glycerolipid Cycling in Thermogenesis, Energy Homeostasis, Signaling, and Diseases

2025· review· en· W4411138893 on OpenAlexafffund
Pegah Poursharifi, S.R. Murthy Madiraju, Abel Oppong, Shingo Kajimura, Christopher J. Nolan, Denis P. Blondin, Marc Prentki

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysiological Reviews · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAdipose Tissue and Metabolism
Canadian institutionsUniversité de SherbrookeCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchMitacsGlaxoSmithKline
KeywordsThermogenesisEnergy homeostasisCyclingHomeostasisEnergy metabolismBiologyCell biologyChemistryEndocrinologyBiochemistryReceptorAdipose tissue

Abstract

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Mammals maintain body heat by adaptive energy expenditure through different organ-specific mechanisms. The glycerolipid/free fatty acid (FFA) cycle (glycerolipid cycle), encompassing triglyceride lipolysis and FFA release followed by their reesterification, is an ATP-consuming process that contributes to energy expenditure, heat production, and various lipid signaling pathways. The glycerolipid cycle, which was originally described as a whole body process, is now known to also occur intracellularly in many organs. This review focuses on the thermogenic and signaling roles of glycerolipid cycling in adipose and other tissues and offers insight into the various pathophysiological conditions where its activity is altered. We discuss its substrates and products, enzyme components, and regulation. We present evidence that this cycling process, besides acting as the complete triglyceride/FFA cycle, is in fact composed of multiple shorter subcycles, which can be activated individually. We highlight the importance of this energy-dissipating cycle in adaptive thermogenesis and energy expenditure in animals and humans and discuss the latest methodological advances to quantify its flux. The much renewed interest in this area has begun to showcase the central role of glycerolipid cycling mediated thermogenesis and signaling in cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, and aging that could be harnessed for therapy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.968
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.380
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations20
Published2025
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

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