Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Dynamic changes of muscle insulin sensitivity after metabolic surgery

  • Sofiya Gancheva,
  • Meriem Ouni,
  • Tomas Jelenik,
  • Chrysi Koliaki,
  • Julia Szendroedi,
  • Frederico G. S. Toledo,
  • Daniel F. Markgraf,
  • Dominik H. Pesta,
  • Lucia Mastrototaro,
  • Elisabetta De Filippo,
  • Christian Herder,
  • Markus Jähnert,
  • Jürgen Weiss,
  • Klaus Strassburger,
  • Matthias Schlensak,
  • Annette Schürmann,
  • Michael Roden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12081-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Surgical weight-loss interventions improve insulin sensitivity via incompletely understood mechanisms. Here the authors assess skeletal muscle epigenetic changes in individuals with obesity following metabolic surgery and compare them with data from individuals without obesity.