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Intersection between Obesity, Dietary Selenium, and Statin Therapy in Brazil by Watanabe, Ligia M, Navarro, Anderson M, Seale, Lucia A

“…Obesity is among the most alarming health concerns, impacting public health and causing a socioeconomic challenge, especially in developing countries like…”
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Pursuing the Molecular Nexus Connecting Diabetes and the Associated Cognitive Impairments by Torres, Daniel J, Alfulaij, Naghum, Sasuclark, Alexandru R, Watanabe, Lígia M, Ha, Herena Y

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Challenging Aspects to Precise Health Strategies in Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders Using Statins by Watanabe, Ligia M, Seale, Lucia A

“…Cardiometabolic disorders (CD), including cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, and obesity, are the leading cause of health concern in the United States…”
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Adaptive Thermogenesis in a Mouse Model Lacking Selenoprotein Biosynthesis in Brown Adipocytes by Seale, Lucia A, Ogawa-Wong, Ashley N, Watanabe, Ligia M, Khadka, Vedbar S, Menor, Mark, Torres, Daniel J, Carlson, Bradley A, Hatfield, Dolph L, Berry, Marla J

“…Selenoproteins are a class of proteins with the selenium-containing amino acid selenocysteine (Sec) in their primary structure. Sec is incorporated into…”
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Combined Omics Reveals That Disruption of the Selenocysteine Lyase Gene Affects Amino Acid Pathways in Mice by Seale, Lucia A, Khadka, Vedbar S, Menor, Mark, Xie, Guoxiang, Watanabe, Ligia M, Sasuclark, Alexandru, Guirguis, Kyrillos, Ha, Herena Y, Hashimoto, Ann C, Peplowska, Karolina, Tiirikainen, Maarit, Jia, Wei, Berry, Marla J, Deng, Youping

“…Selenium is a nonmetal trace element that is critical for several redox reactions and utilized to produce the amino acid selenocysteine (Sec), which can be…”
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Selenium and selenoproteins in thermogenic adipocytes by Shimada, Briana K., Watanabe, Ligia M., Swanson, Sydonie, Toh, Pamela, Seale, Lucia A.

“…Selenium (Se) is involved in energy metabolism in the liver, white adipose tissue, and skeletal muscle, and may also play a role in thermogenic adipocytes,…”
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Effect of statin treatment in obese selenium-supplemented mice lacking selenocysteine lyase by Watanabe, Ligia M., Hashimoto, Ann C., Torres, Daniel J., Alfulaij, Naghum, Peres, Rafael, Sultana, Razvan, Maunakea, Alika K., Berry, Marla J., Seale, Lucia A.

“…People with obesity are often dyslipidemic and prescribed statins to prevent cardiovascular events. A common side effect of statin use is myopathy. This could…”
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Effects of selenium supplementation on diet-induced obesity in mice with a disruption of the selenocysteine lyase gene by Watanabe, Ligia M., Hashimoto, Ann C., Torres, Daniel J., Berry, Marla J., Seale, Lucia A.

“…The amino acid selenocysteine (Sec) is an integral part of selenoproteins, a class of proteins mostly involved in strong redox reactions. The enzyme Sec lyase…”
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Exercise training modifies the whole blood DNA methylation profile in middle-aged and older women by da Silva Rodrigues, Guilherme, Noronha, Natália Y, Almeida, Mariana L, Sobrinho, Andressa C da S, Watanabe, Lígia M, Pinhel, Marcela A de S, de Lima, João G R, Zhang, Ren, Nonino, Carla B, Alves, Christiano R R, Bueno Júnior, Carlos R

“…This is a longitudinal single-arm clinical trial aimed to investigate whether exercise training would modify the whole blood methylation profile in healthy…”
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Association between selenium levels and thyroid function in patients with heart disease by De Lima, Livia F., Watanabe, Ligia M., Navarro, Anderson M.

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The intersection between COVID-19 and obesity in the context of an emerging country by Pinhel, Marcela A.S., Watanabe, Ligia M., Noronha, Natalia Y., Junior, Wilson S., Nonino, Carla B.

“…The worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already caused a substantial public health burden. Increasing number of studies linked…”
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