In collaboration with our colleagues in at University of Amsterdam, Jan-Frieder Harmsen has published a new article in  the FASEB Journal and demonstrated that controlled shortterm circadian misalignment distributed the skeletal muscle lipidome, whereas lipid droplet morphology remained unalterd. The full manuscript with the title "Circadian misalignment disturbs the skeletal muscle lipidome in...

Published in Diabetes Care by our colleague Yvo op den Kamp and now available online ahead of print is the article called: "Effects of the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Energy Metabolism in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized, Double-Blind Crossover Trial". Full article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.2337/dc20-2887 Read the abstract below. OBJECTIVE: SGTL2 inhibitors inc...

Scientists from the Netherlands and Canada are to investigate whether lifestyle changes can help to restore the 24-hour rhythm of people at a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The Dutch researchers, including Professor Patrick Schrauwen of Maastricht University, have already concluded that people with a predisposition to type 2 diabetes have a disrupted circadian rhythm, or biological cl...

A recent manuscript published in Nature Communication by our team show that mild cold acclimation for 10 days in patients with type 2 diabetes in which observable, overt shivering was prevented, does not result in improved insulin sensitivity. The full article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21813-0 ABSTRACT Mild cold acclimation for 10 days has been previously shown to...

An interesting read by our colleague Sten van Beek on "Prolonged β 2-adrenergic agonist treatment improves glucose homeostasis in diet-induced obese UCP1 -/- mice". This manuscript is published in the American Journal of Physiology Metabolism & Endocrinology and full text can be found online: https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00324.2020  Read the abstract below: Prolonged supplementation...

The thesis defence of Niels Connell can be followed via the following link: https://youtu.be/joKhwHaE7BE

The newest review by Charlotte Andriessen has been published (ahead of print) in the International Journal of Obesity with the title: "The importance of 24-h metabolism in obesity-related metabolic disorders: opportunities for timed interventions". The  review can be found online: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-020-00719-9 Read the abstract below: Various metabolic processes in the body osci...

Last week, a new article of Kay Roumans was published online ahead of print: "Liver fat storage pathways: methodologies and dietary effects". The article in Current Opinion in Lipodology can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1097/mol.0000000000000720  Read the abstract below: PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Nonalcoholic fatty liver is the result of an imbalance between lipid storage [from meal, de novo l...

Our colleague Anne Gemmink, together with other members of our research group, published an article titled: "Decoration of myocellular lipid droplets with perilipins as a marker for in vivo lipid droplet dynamics: A super-resolution microscopy study in trained athletes and insulin resistant individuals". This article is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lip...

The very first article of Froukje Vanweert as first author has been published titled "Elevated plasma branched-chain amino acid levels correlate with type 2 diabetes-related metabolic disturbances". The full article can be found online: https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa751 Read the abstract below: CONTEXT: Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have elevated plasma branched-chain amino acid ...