We all remember one thing from our school textbooks, Mitochondria is the powerhouse of cell, meaning mitochondria burns down fat chains and produces energy for our body to consume but who is transporting all that fat from various parts of the cell to mitochondria
The resulting inflammation creates a painful cycle where swelling leads to more impingement which causes more swelling
Thus, its mechanism directly addresses metabolic risk by altering fat metabolism through the GH-IGF-1 axis
Notably, SCD endures overwhelming oxidative stress and consumes significant amounts of cysteine for glutathione (GSH) synthesis
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Interestingly, Gro3P accumulation caused by loss of solute carrier transporter SLC25A13, which leads to Citrin deficiency, was found to directly activate the transcription factor ChREBP to induce expression of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which modulates food and alcohol preferences in the brain and contributes to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)[formerly known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)] 19