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profileRobert V. Farese Jr., M.D.

TitleProfessor of Genetics and Complex Diseases
InstitutionHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
DepartmentGenetics and Complex Diseases
AddressHarvard School of Public Health
Building 1, room 208
665 Huntington Ave
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TitleProfessor of Cell Biology
InstitutionHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
DepartmentCell Biology


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R13HL123268     (FARESE, ROBERT V)Jun 10, 2014 - May 31, 2015
NIH/NHLBI
2014 Lipoprotein Metabolism Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Semina
Role: Principal Investigator
R01DK101579     (FARESE, ROBERT V)May 1, 2014 - Apr 30, 2019
NIH/NIDDK
Physiology of Lipid Droplets and Triglyceride Storage
Role: Principal Investigator
R01GM099844     (FARESE, ROBERT V)Mar 1, 2012 - Nov 30, 2015
NIH/NIGMS
The Mechanisms of Lipid Droplet Formation and Regulation
Role: Principal Investigator
R56DK056084     (FARESE, ROBERT V)Sep 30, 2010 - Aug 31, 2011
NIH/NIDDK
Role of DGAT in Triacyglycerol Metabolism
Role: Principal Investigator
RC1NS068697     (FARESE, ROBERT V)Sep 30, 2009 - Aug 31, 2011
NIH/NINDS
Enhancing Progranulin Expression - a Therapy for Frontotemporal Dementia
Role: Principal Investigator

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  1. Krabbe G, Minami SS, Etchegaray JI, Taneja P, Djukic B, Davalos D, Le D, Lo I, Zhan L, Reichert MC, Sayed F, Merlini M, Ward ME, Perry DC, Lee SE, Sias A, Parkhurst CN, Gan WB, Akassoglou K, Miller BL, Farese RV, Gan L. Microglial NF?B-TNFa hyperactivation induces obsessive-compulsive behavior in mouse models of progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 May 09; 114(19):5029-5034. PMID: 28438992.
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  2. Gluchowski NL, Becuwe M, Walther TC, Farese RV. Lipid droplets and liver disease: from basic biology to clinical implications. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Jun; 14(6):343-355. PMID: 28428634.
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  3. Gluchowski NL, Chitraju C, Picoraro JA, Mejhert N, Pinto S, Xin W, Kamin DS, Winter HS, Chung WK, Walther TC, Farese RV. Identification and characterization of a novel DGAT1 missense mutation associated with congenital diarrhea. J Lipid Res. 2017 Jun; 58(6):1230-1237. PMID: 28373485.
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  4. Dorfman MD, Krull JE, Scarlett JM, Guyenet SJ, Sajan MP, Damian V, Nguyen HT, Leitges M, Morton GJ, Farese RV, Schwartz MW, Thaler JP. Deletion of Protein Kinase C ? in POMC Neurons Predisposes to Diet-Induced Obesity. Diabetes. 2017 Apr; 66(4):920-934. PMID: 28073831.
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  5. Kory N, Grond S, Kamat SS, Li Z, Krahmer N, Chitraju C, Zhou P, Fröhlich F, Semova I, Ejsing C, Zechner R, Cravatt BF, Farese RV, Walther TC. Mice lacking lipid droplet-associated hydrolase, a gene linked to human prostate cancer, have normal cholesterol ester metabolism. J Lipid Res. 2017 Jan; 58(1):226-235. PMID: 27836991.
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  6. Fröhlich F, Olson DK, Christiano R, Farese RV, Walther TC. Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of yeast reveal the global cellular response to sphingolipid depletion. Proteomics. 2016 Nov; 16(21):2759-2763. PMID: 27717283.
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  7. Wang H, Becuwe M, Housden BE, Chitraju C, Porras AJ, Graham MM, Liu XN, Thiam AR, Savage DB, Agarwal AK, Garg A, Olarte MJ, Lin Q, Fröhlich F, Hannibal-Bach HK, Upadhyayula S, Perrimon N, Kirchhausen T, Ejsing CS, Walther TC, Farese RV. Seipin is required for converting nascent to mature lipid droplets. Elife. 2016 Aug 26; 5. PMID: 27564575.
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  8. Tsokas P, Hsieh C, Yao Y, Lesburguères E, Wallace EJ, Tcherepanov A, Jothianandan D, Hartley BR, Pan L, Rivard B, Farese RV, Sajan MP, Bergold PJ, Hernández AI, Cottrell JE, Shouval HZ, Fenton AA, Sacktor TC. Compensation for PKM? in long-term potentiation and spatial long-term memory in mutant mice. Elife. 2016 May 17; 5. PMID: 27187150; PMCID: PMC4869915.
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  9. Lui H, Zhang J, Makinson SR, Cahill MK, Kelley KW, Huang HY, Shang Y, Oldham MC, Martens LH, Gao F, Coppola G, Sloan SA, Hsieh CL, Kim CC, Bigio EH, Weintraub S, Mesulam MM, Rademakers R, Mackenzie IR, Seeley WW, Karydas A, Miller BL, Borroni B, Ghidoni R, Farese RV, Paz JT, Barres BA, Huang EJ. Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation. Cell. 2016 May 05; 165(4):921-35. PMID: 27114033; PMCID: PMC4860138 [Available on 05/05/17].
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  10. Kory N, Farese RV, Walther TC. Targeting Fat: Mechanisms of Protein Localization to Lipid Droplets. Trends Cell Biol. 2016 Jul; 26(7):535-46. PMID: 26995697; PMCID: PMC4976449 [Available on 07/01/17].
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  11. Sajan M, Hansen B, Ivey R, Sajan J, Ari C, Song S, Braun U, Leitges M, Farese-Higgs M, Farese RV. Brain Insulin Signaling Is Increased in Insulin-Resistant States and Decreases in FOXOs and PGC-1a and Increases in Aß1-40/42 and Phospho-Tau May Abet Alzheimer Development. Diabetes. 2016 Jul; 65(7):1892-903. PMID: 26895791; PMCID: PMC4915579 [Available on 07/01/17].
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  12. Agarwal AK, Tunison K, Dalal JS, Yen CL, Farese RV, Horton JD, Garg A. Mogat1 deletion does not ameliorate hepatic steatosis in lipodystrophic (Agpat2-/-) or obese (ob/ob) mice. J Lipid Res. 2016 Apr; 57(4):616-30. PMID: 26880786; PMCID: PMC4808770 [Available on 04/01/17].
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  13. Farese RV, Walther TC. Lipid droplets go nuclear. J Cell Biol. 2016 Jan 04; 212(1):7-8. PMID: 26728852; PMCID: PMC4700486.
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  14. Olson DK, Fröhlich F, Farese RV, Walther TC. Taming the sphinx: Mechanisms of cellular sphingolipid homeostasis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Aug; 1861(8 Pt B):784-92. PMID: 26747648; PMCID: PMC4907851 [Available on 08/01/17].
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  15. Yu H, Fujii NL, Toyoda T, An D, Farese RV, Leitges M, Hirshman MF, Mul JD, Goodyear LJ. Contraction stimulates muscle glucose uptake independent of atypical PKC. Physiol Rep. 2015 Nov; 3(11). PMID: 26564060; PMCID: PMC4673624.
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  16. Fröhlich F, Petit C, Kory N, Christiano R, Hannibal-Bach HK, Graham M, Liu X, Ejsing CS, Farese RV, Walther TC. The GARP complex is required for cellular sphingolipid homeostasis. Elife. 2015 Sep 10; 4. PMID: 26357016; PMCID: PMC4600884.
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  17. Sajan MP, Ivey RA, Farese RV. BMI-related progression of atypical PKC-dependent aberrations in insulin signaling through IRS-1, Akt, FoxO1 and PGC-1a in livers of obese and type 2 diabetic humans. Metabolism. 2015 Nov; 64(11):1454-65. PMID: 26386696; PMCID: PMC4576742 [Available on 11/01/16].
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  18. Kory N, Thiam AR, Farese RV, Walther TC. Protein Crowding Is a Determinant of Lipid Droplet Protein Composition. Dev Cell. 2015 Aug 10; 34(3):351-63. PMID: 26212136; PMCID: PMC4536137.
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  19. Zhang N, Liang H, Farese RV, Li J, Musi N, Hussey SE. Pharmacological TLR4 Inhibition Protects against Acute and Chronic Fat-Induced Insulin Resistance in Rats. PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0132575. PMID: 26196892; PMCID: PMC4510579.
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  20. Camus G, Schweiger M, Herker E, Harris C, Kondratowicz AS, Tsou CL, Farese RV, Herath K, Previs SF, Roddy TP, Pinto S, Zechner R, Ott M. The hepatitis C virus core protein inhibits adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL)-mediated lipid mobilization and enhances the ATGL interaction with comparative gene identification 58 (CGI-58) and lipid droplets. J Biol Chem. 2014 Dec 26; 289(52):35770-80. PMID: 25381252; PMCID: PMC4276846.
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  21. Mul JD, Begg DP, Haller AM, Pressler JW, Sorrell J, Woods SC, Farese RV, Seeley RJ, Sandoval DA. MGAT2 deficiency and vertical sleeve gastrectomy have independent metabolic effects in the mouse. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2014 Dec 01; 307(11):E1065-72. PMID: 25315695; PMCID: PMC4254982.
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  22. Minami SS, Min SW, Krabbe G, Wang C, Zhou Y, Asgarov R, Li Y, Martens LH, Elia LP, Ward ME, Mucke L, Farese RV, Gan L. Progranulin protects against amyloid ß deposition and toxicity in Alzheimer's disease mouse models. Nat Med. 2014 Oct; 20(10):1157-64. PMID: 25261995; PMCID: PMC4196723.
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  23. Liu L, Trent CM, Fang X, Son NH, Jiang H, Blaner WS, Hu Y, Yin YX, Farese RV, Homma S, Turnbull AV, Eriksson JW, Hu SL, Ginsberg HN, Huang LS, Goldberg IJ. Cardiomyocyte-specific loss of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) reproduces the abnormalities in lipids found in severe heart failure. J Biol Chem. 2014 Oct 24; 289(43):29881-91. PMID: 25157099; PMCID: PMC4207999.
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  24. Ward ME, Taubes A, Chen R, Miller BL, Sephton CF, Gelfand JM, Minami S, Boscardin J, Martens LH, Seeley WW, Yu G, Herz J, Filiano AJ, Arrant AE, Roberson ED, Kraft TW, Farese RV, Green A, Gan L. Early retinal neurodegeneration and impaired Ran-mediated nuclear import of TDP-43 in progranulin-deficient FTLD. J Exp Med. 2014 Sep 22; 211(10):1937-45. PMID: 25155018; PMCID: PMC4172214.
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  25. Farese RV, Lee MC, Sajan MP. Hepatic Atypical Protein Kinase C: An Inherited Survival-Longevity Gene that Now Fuels Insulin-Resistant Syndromes of Obesity, the Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. J Clin Med. 2014 Jul 07; 3(3):724-40. PMID: 26237474; PMCID: PMC4449650.
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  26. Fu D, Yu Y, Folick A, Currie E, Farese RV, Tsai TH, Xie XS, Wang MC. In vivo metabolic fingerprinting of neutral lipids with hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Jun 18; 136(24):8820-8. PMID: 24869754; PMCID: PMC4073829.
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  27. Currie E, Guo X, Christiano R, Chitraju C, Kory N, Harrison K, Haas J, Walther TC, Farese RV. High confidence proteomic analysis of yeast LDs identifies additional droplet proteins and reveals connections to dolichol synthesis and sterol acetylation. J Lipid Res. 2014 Jul; 55(7):1465-77. PMID: 24868093; PMCID: PMC4076087.
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  28. Wilfling F, Haas JT, Walther TC, Farese RV. Lipid droplet biogenesis. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2014 Aug; 29:39-45. PMID: 24736091; PMCID: PMC4526149.
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  29. Wilfling F, Thiam AR, Olarte MJ, Wang J, Beck R, Gould TJ, Allgeyer ES, Pincet F, Bewersdorf J, Farese RV, Walther TC. Arf1/COPI machinery acts directly on lipid droplets and enables their connection to the ER for protein targeting. Elife. 2014; 3:e01607. PMID: 24497546; PMCID: PMC3913038.
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  30. Thiam AR, Farese RV, Walther TC. The biophysics and cell biology of lipid droplets. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2013 Dec; 14(12):775-86. PMID: 24220094; PMCID: PMC4526153.
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  31. Zhang Z, Almeida S, Lu Y, Nishimura AL, Peng L, Sun D, Wu B, Karydas AM, Tartaglia MC, Fong JC, Miller BL, Farese RV, Moore MJ, Shaw CE, Gao FB. Downregulation of microRNA-9 in iPSC-derived neurons of FTD/ALS patients with TDP-43 mutations. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10):e76055. PMID: 24143176; PMCID: PMC3797144.
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  32. Nguyen AD, Nguyen TA, Martens LH, Mitic LL, Farese RV. Progranulin: at the interface of neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Dec; 24(12):597-606. PMID: 24035620; PMCID: PMC3842380.
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  33. Surma MA, Klose C, Peng D, Shales M, Mrejen C, Stefanko A, Braberg H, Gordon DE, Vorkel D, Ejsing CS, Farese R, Simons K, Krogan NJ, Ernst R. A lipid E-MAP identifies Ubx2 as a critical regulator of lipid saturation and lipid bilayer stress. Mol Cell. 2013 Aug 22; 51(4):519-30. PMID: 23891562; PMCID: PMC3791312.
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  34. Currie E, Schulze A, Zechner R, Walther TC, Farese RV. Cellular fatty acid metabolism and cancer. Cell Metab. 2013 Aug 06; 18(2):153-61. PMID: 23791484; PMCID: PMC3742569.
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  35. Krahmer N, Farese RV, Walther TC. Balancing the fat: lipid droplets and human disease. EMBO Mol Med. 2013 Jul; 5(7):973-83. PMID: 23740690; PMCID: PMC3721468.
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  36. Chen X, Chang J, Deng Q, Xu J, Nguyen TA, Martens LH, Cenik B, Taylor G, Hudson KF, Chung J, Yu K, Yu P, Herz J, Farese RV, Kukar T, Tansey MG. Progranulin does not bind tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptors and is not a direct regulator of TNF-dependent signaling or bioactivity in immune or neuronal cells. J Neurosci. 2013 May 22; 33(21):9202-13. PMID: 23699531; PMCID: PMC3707136.
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  37. Klemm RW, Norton JP, Cole RA, Li CS, Park SH, Crane MM, Li L, Jin D, Boye-Doe A, Liu TY, Shibata Y, Lu H, Rapoport TA, Farese RV, Blackstone C, Guo Y, Mak HY. A conserved role for atlastin GTPases in regulating lipid droplet size. Cell Rep. 2013 May 30; 3(5):1465-75. PMID: 23684613; PMCID: PMC3742324.
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  38. Filiano AJ, Martens LH, Young AH, Warmus BA, Zhou P, Diaz-Ramirez G, Jiao J, Zhang Z, Huang EJ, Gao FB, Farese RV, Roberson ED. Dissociation of frontotemporal dementia-related deficits and neuroinflammation in progranulin haploinsufficient mice. J Neurosci. 2013 Mar 20; 33(12):5352-61. PMID: 23516300; PMCID: PMC3740510.
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  39. Camus G, Herker E, Modi AA, Haas JT, Ramage HR, Farese RV, Ott M. Diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1 localizes hepatitis C virus NS5A protein to lipid droplets and enhances NS5A interaction with the viral capsid core. J Biol Chem. 2013 Apr 05; 288(14):9915-23. PMID: 23420847; PMCID: PMC3617291.
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  40. Wilfling F, Wang H, Haas JT, Krahmer N, Gould TJ, Uchida A, Cheng JX, Graham M, Christiano R, Fröhlich F, Liu X, Buhman KK, Coleman RA, Bewersdorf J, Farese RV, Walther TC. Triacylglycerol synthesis enzymes mediate lipid droplet growth by relocalizing from the ER to lipid droplets. Dev Cell. 2013 Feb 25; 24(4):384-99. PMID: 23415954; PMCID: PMC3727400.
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  41. Nguyen AD, Nguyen TA, Cenik B, Yu G, Herz J, Walther TC, Davidson WS, Farese RV. Secreted progranulin is a homodimer and is not a component of high density lipoproteins (HDL). J Biol Chem. 2013 Mar 22; 288(12):8627-35. PMID: 23364791; PMCID: PMC3605681.
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  42. Krahmer N, Hilger M, Kory N, Wilfling F, Stoehr G, Mann M, Farese RV, Walther TC. Protein correlation profiles identify lipid droplet proteins with high confidence. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2013 May; 12(5):1115-26. PMID: 23319140; PMCID: PMC3650325.
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  43. Shimazu T, Hirschey MD, Newman J, He W, Shirakawa K, Le Moan N, Grueter CA, Lim H, Saunders LR, Stevens RD, Newgard CB, Farese RV, de Cabo R, Ulrich S, Akassoglou K, Verdin E. Suppression of oxidative stress by ß-hydroxybutyrate, an endogenous histone deacetylase inhibitor. Science. 2013 Jan 11; 339(6116):211-4. PMID: 23223453; PMCID: PMC3735349.
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  44. Haas JT, Winter HS, Lim E, Kirby A, Blumenstiel B, DeFelice M, Gabriel S, Jalas C, Branski D, Grueter CA, Toporovski MS, Walther TC, Daly MJ, Farese RV. DGAT1 mutation is linked to a congenital diarrheal disorder. J Clin Invest. 2012 Dec; 122(12):4680-4. PMID: 23114594; PMCID: PMC3533555.
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  45. Armakola M, Higgins MJ, Figley MD, Barmada SJ, Scarborough EA, Diaz Z, Fang X, Shorter J, Krogan NJ, Finkbeiner S, Farese RV, Gitler AD. Inhibition of RNA lariat debranching enzyme suppresses TDP-43 toxicity in ALS disease models. Nat Genet. 2012 Dec; 44(12):1302-9. PMID: 23104007; PMCID: PMC3510335.
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  46. Eichmann TO, Kumari M, Haas JT, Farese RV, Zimmermann R, Lass A, Zechner R. Studies on the substrate and stereo/regioselectivity of adipose triglyceride lipase, hormone-sensitive lipase, and diacylglycerol-O-acyltransferases. J Biol Chem. 2012 Nov 30; 287(49):41446-57. PMID: 23066022; PMCID: PMC3510842.
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  47. Almeida S, Zhang Z, Coppola G, Mao W, Futai K, Karydas A, Geschwind MD, Tartaglia MC, Gao F, Gianni D, Sena-Esteves M, Geschwind DH, Miller BL, Farese RV, Gao FB. Induced pluripotent stem cell models of progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia uncover specific reversible neuronal defects. Cell Rep. 2012 Oct 25; 2(4):789-98. PMID: 23063362; PMCID: PMC3532907.
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  48. Boxer AL, Gold M, Huey E, Hu WT, Rosen H, Kramer J, Gao FB, Burton EA, Chow T, Kao A, Leavitt BR, Lamb B, Grether M, Knopman D, Cairns NJ, Mackenzie IR, Mitic L, Roberson ED, Van Kammen D, Cantillon M, Zahs K, Jackson G, Salloway S, Morris J, Tong G, Feldman H, Fillit H, Dickinson S, Khachaturian ZS, Sutherland M, Abushakra S, Lewcock J, Farese R, Kenet RO, Laferla F, Perrin S, Whitaker S, Honig L, Mesulam MM, Boeve B, Grossman M, Miller BL, Cummings JL. The advantages of frontotemporal degeneration drug development (part 2 of frontotemporal degeneration: the next therapeutic frontier). Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Mar; 9(2):189-98. PMID: 23062850; PMCID: PMC3562382.
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  49. Martens LH, Zhang J, Barmada SJ, Zhou P, Kamiya S, Sun B, Min SW, Gan L, Finkbeiner S, Huang EJ, Farese RV. Progranulin deficiency promotes neuroinflammation and neuron loss following toxin-induced injury. J Clin Invest. 2012 Nov; 122(11):3955-9. PMID: 23041626; PMCID: PMC3484443.
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  50. Boxer AL, Gold M, Huey E, Gao FB, Burton EA, Chow T, Kao A, Leavitt BR, Lamb B, Grether M, Knopman D, Cairns NJ, Mackenzie IR, Mitic L, Roberson ED, Van Kammen D, Cantillon M, Zahs K, Salloway S, Morris J, Tong G, Feldman H, Fillit H, Dickinson S, Khachaturian Z, Sutherland M, Farese R, Miller BL, Cummings J. Frontotemporal degeneration, the next therapeutic frontier: molecules and animal models for frontotemporal degeneration drug development. Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Mar; 9(2):176-88. PMID: 23043900; PMCID: PMC3542408.
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  51. Xu N, Zhang SO, Cole RA, McKinney SA, Guo F, Haas JT, Bobba S, Farese RV, Mak HY. The FATP1-DGAT2 complex facilitates lipid droplet expansion at the ER-lipid droplet interface. J Cell Biol. 2012 Sep 03; 198(5):895-911. PMID: 22927462; PMCID: PMC3432760.
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  52. Haas JT, Miao J, Chanda D, Wang Y, Zhao E, Haas ME, Hirschey M, Vaitheesvaran B, Farese RV, Kurland IJ, Graham M, Crooke R, Foufelle F, Biddinger SB. Hepatic insulin signaling is required for obesity-dependent expression of SREBP-1c mRNA but not for feeding-dependent expression. Cell Metab. 2012 Jun 06; 15(6):873-84. PMID: 22682225; PMCID: PMC3383842.
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  53. Farese RV, Zechner R, Newgard CB, Walther TC. The problem of establishing relationships between hepatic steatosis and hepatic insulin resistance. Cell Metab. 2012 May 02; 15(5):570-3. PMID: 22560209; PMCID: PMC3767424.
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  54. Walther TC, Farese RV. Lipid droplets and cellular lipid metabolism. Annu Rev Biochem. 2012; 81:687-714. PMID: 22524315; PMCID: PMC3767414.
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  55. Zhang J, Kelley KL, Marshall SM, Davis MA, Wilson MD, Sawyer JK, Farese RV, Brown JM, Rudel LL. Tissue-specific knockouts of ACAT2 reveal that intestinal depletion is sufficient to prevent diet-induced cholesterol accumulation in the liver and blood. J Lipid Res. 2012 Jun; 53(6):1144-52. PMID: 22460046; PMCID: PMC3351821.
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  56. Streeper RS, Grueter CA, Salomonis N, Cases S, Levin MC, Koliwad SK, Zhou P, Hirschey MD, Verdin E, Farese RV. Deficiency of the lipid synthesis enzyme, DGAT1, extends longevity in mice. Aging (Albany NY). 2012 Jan; 4(1):13-27. PMID: 22291164; PMCID: PMC3292902.
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  57. Tschöp MH, Speakman JR, Arch JR, Auwerx J, Brüning JC, Chan L, Eckel RH, Farese RV, Galgani JE, Hambly C, Herman MA, Horvath TL, Kahn BB, Kozma SC, Maratos-Flier E, Müller TD, Münzberg H, Pfluger PT, Plum L, Reitman ML, Rahmouni K, Shulman GI, Thomas G, Kahn CR, Ravussin E. A guide to analysis of mouse energy metabolism. Nat Methods. 2011 Dec 28; 9(1):57-63. PMID: 22205519; PMCID: PMC3654855.
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  58. Hirschey MD, Shimazu T, Jing E, Grueter CA, Collins AM, Aouizerat B, Stancáková A, Goetzman E, Lam MM, Schwer B, Stevens RD, Muehlbauer MJ, Kakar S, Bass NM, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Alt FW, Newgard CB, Farese RV, Kahn CR, Verdin E. SIRT3 deficiency and mitochondrial protein hyperacetylation accelerate the development of the metabolic syndrome. Mol Cell. 2011 Oct 21; 44(2):177-90. PMID: 21856199; PMCID: PMC3563434.
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  59. Harris C, Herker E, Farese RV, Ott M. Hepatitis C virus core protein decreases lipid droplet turnover: a mechanism for core-induced steatosis. J Biol Chem. 2011 Dec 09; 286(49):42615-25. PMID: 21984835; PMCID: PMC3234948.
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  60. Krahmer N, Guo Y, Wilfling F, Hilger M, Lingrell S, Heger K, Newman HW, Schmidt-Supprian M, Vance DE, Mann M, Farese RV, Walther TC. Phosphatidylcholine synthesis for lipid droplet expansion is mediated by localized activation of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase. Cell Metab. 2011 Oct 05; 14(4):504-15. PMID: 21982710; PMCID: PMC3735358.
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  61. Rosen EY, Wexler EM, Versano R, Coppola G, Gao F, Winden KD, Oldham MC, Martens LH, Zhou P, Farese RV, Geschwind DH. Functional genomic analyses identify pathways dysregulated by progranulin deficiency, implicating Wnt signaling. Neuron. 2011 Sep 22; 71(6):1030-42. PMID: 21943601; PMCID: PMC3633414.
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  62. Monetti M, Levin MC, Watt MJ, Hubbard BK, Newgard C, Farese RV, Hevener AL, Farese RV. Hepatic acyl-CoA:diacylglcyerol acyltransferase (DGAT) overexpression, diacylglycerol, and insulin sensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 23; 108(34):E523; author reply E524. PMID: 21807991; PMCID: PMC3161537.
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  63. Cenik B, Sephton CF, Dewey CM, Xian X, Wei S, Yu K, Niu W, Coppola G, Coughlin SE, Lee SE, Dries DR, Almeida S, Geschwind DH, Gao FB, Miller BL, Farese RV, Posner BA, Yu G, Herz J. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (vorinostat) up-regulates progranulin transcription: rational therapeutic approach to frontotemporal dementia. J Biol Chem. 2011 May 06; 286(18):16101-8. PMID: 21454553; PMCID: PMC3091219.
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  64. Kao AW, Eisenhut RJ, Martens LH, Nakamura A, Huang A, Bagley JA, Zhou P, de Luis A, Neukomm LJ, Cabello J, Farese RV, Kenyon C. A neurodegenerative disease mutation that accelerates the clearance of apoptotic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 15; 108(11):4441-6. PMID: 21368173; PMCID: PMC3060230.
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  119. Leonard SW, Terasawa Y, Farese RV, Traber MG. Incorporation of deuterated RRR- or all-rac-alpha-tocopherol in plasma and tissues of alpha-tocopherol transfer protein--null mice. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Mar; 75(3):555-60. PMID: 11864863.
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  148. Khelef N, Buton X, Beatini N, Wang H, Meiner V, Chang TY, Farese RV, Maxfield FR, Tabas I. Immunolocalization of acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol O-acyltransferase in macrophages. J Biol Chem. 1998 May 01; 273(18):11218-24. PMID: 9556612.
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  153. Khovidhunkit W, Farese RV. Resolution of propylthiouracil-induced hepatic failure after treatment of thyrotoxicosis. West J Med. 1997 Nov; 167(5):353-6. PMID: 9392993; PMCID: PMC1304632.
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  154. Bandyopadhyay G, Standaert ML, Galloway L, Moscat J, Farese RV. Evidence for Involvement of Protein Kinase C (PKC)-? and Noninvolvement of Diacylglycerol-Sensitive PKCs in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Transport in L6 Myotubes. Endocrinology. 1997 Nov 01; 138(11):4721-4731. PMID: 28204211.
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  155. Meiner V, Tam C, Gunn MD, Dong LM, Weisgraber KH, Novak S, Myers HM, Erickson SK, Farese RV. Tissue expression studies on the mouse acyl-CoA: cholesterol acyltransferase gene (Acact): findings supporting the existence of multiple cholesterol esterification enzymes in mice. J Lipid Res. 1997 Sep; 38(9):1928-33. PMID: 9323603.
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  156. Herz J, Willnow TE, Farese RV. Cholesterol, hedgehog and embryogenesis. Nat Genet. 1997 Feb; 15(2):123-4. PMID: 9020834.
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  157. Meiner VL, Cases S, Myers HM, Sande ER, Bellosta S, Schambelan M, Pitas RE, McGuire J, Herz J, Farese RV. Disruption of the acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase gene in mice: evidence suggesting multiple cholesterol esterification enzymes in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Nov 26; 93(24):14041-6. PMID: 8943057; PMCID: PMC19491.
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  158. Welch CL, Xia YR, Shechter I, Farese R, Mehrabian M, Mehdizadeh S, Warden CH, Lusis AJ. Genetic regulation of cholesterol homeostasis: chromosomal organization of candidate genes. J Lipid Res. 1996 Jul; 37(7):1406-21. PMID: 8827514.
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  159. Farese RV, Véniant MM, Cham CM, Flynn LM, Pierotti V, Loring JF, Traber M, Ruland S, Stokowski RS, Huszar D, Young SG. Phenotypic analysis of mice expressing exclusively apolipoprotein B48 or apolipoprotein B100. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Jun 25; 93(13):6393-8. PMID: 8692825; PMCID: PMC39033.
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  160. Connolly AJ, Ishihara H, Kahn ML, Farese RV, Coughlin SR. Role of the thrombin receptor in development and evidence for a second receptor. Nature. 1996 Jun 06; 381(6582):516-9. PMID: 8632823.
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  161. Huang XZ, Wu JF, Cass D, Erle DJ, Corry D, Young SG, Farese RV, Sheppard D. Inactivation of the integrin beta 6 subunit gene reveals a role of epithelial integrins in regulating inflammation in the lung and skin. J Cell Biol. 1996 May; 133(4):921-8. PMID: 8666675; PMCID: PMC2120829.
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  162. Hirano K, Young SG, Farese RV, Ng J, Sande E, Warburton C, Powell-Braxton LM, Davidson NO. Targeted disruption of the mouse apobec-1 gene abolishes apolipoprotein B mRNA editing and eliminates apolipoprotein B48. J Biol Chem. 1996 Apr 26; 271(17):9887-90. PMID: 8626621.
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  163. Farese RV, Cases S, Ruland SL, Kayden HJ, Wong JS, Young SG, Hamilton RL. A novel function for apolipoprotein B: lipoprotein synthesis in the yolk sac is critical for maternal-fetal lipid transport in mice. J Lipid Res. 1996 Feb; 37(2):347-60. PMID: 9026532.
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  164. Young SG, Krul ES, McCormick S, Farese RV, Linton MF. Identification and characterization of truncated forms of apolipoprotein B in hypobetalipoproteinemia. Methods Enzymol. 1996; 263:120-45. PMID: 8749004.
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  165. Young SG, Cham CM, Pitas RE, Burri BJ, Connolly A, Flynn L, Pappu AS, Wong JS, Hamilton RL, Farese RV. A genetic model for absent chylomicron formation: mice producing apolipoprotein B in the liver, but not in the intestine. J Clin Invest. 1995 Dec; 96(6):2932-46. PMID: 8675665; PMCID: PMC186005.
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  166. Purcell-Huynh DA, Farese RV, Johnson DF, Flynn LM, Pierotti V, Newland DL, Linton MF, Sanan DA, Young SG. Transgenic mice expressing high levels of human apolipoprotein B develop severe atherosclerotic lesions in response to a high-fat diet. J Clin Invest. 1995 May; 95(5):2246-57. PMID: 7738190; PMCID: PMC295837.
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  167. Farese RV, Ruland SL, Flynn LM, Stokowski RP, Young SG. Knockout of the mouse apolipoprotein B gene results in embryonic lethality in homozygotes and protection against diet-induced hypercholesterolemia in heterozygotes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Feb 28; 92(5):1774-8. PMID: 7878058; PMCID: PMC42602.
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  168. Zysow BR, Pullinger CR, Hennessy LK, Farese RV, Ghassemzadeh M, Kane JP. The apolipoprotein C-II variant apoC-IILys19-->Thr is not associated with dyslipidemia in an affected kindred. Clin Genet. 1994 Jun; 45(6):292-7. PMID: 7923858.
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  169. Young SG, Farese RV, Pierotti VR, Taylor S, Grass DS, Linton MF. Transgenic mice expressing human apoB100 and apoB48. Curr Opin Lipidol. 1994 Apr; 5(2):94-101. PMID: 8044422.
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  170. Linton MF, Farese RV, Chiesa G, Grass DS, Chin P, Hammer RE, Hobbs HH, Young SG. Transgenic mice expressing high plasma concentrations of human apolipoprotein B100 and lipoprotein(a). J Clin Invest. 1993 Dec; 92(6):3029-37. PMID: 8254057; PMCID: PMC288508.
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  171. Linton MF, Farese RV, Young SG. Familial hypobetalipoproteinemia. J Lipid Res. 1993 Apr; 34(4):521-41. PMID: 8496659.
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  172. Young SG, Pullinger CR, Zysow BR, Hofmann-Radvani H, Linton MF, Farese RV, Terdiman JF, Snyder SM, Grundy SM, Vega GL, et al. Four new mutations in the apolipoprotein B gene causing hypobetalipoproteinemia, including two different frameshift mutations that yield truncated apolipoprotein B proteins of identical length. J Lipid Res. 1993 Mar; 34(3):501-7. PMID: 8468533.
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  173. Farese RV, Flynn LM, Young SG. Modification of the apolipoprotein B gene in HepG2 cells by gene targeting. J Clin Invest. 1992 Jul; 90(1):256-61. PMID: 1321843; PMCID: PMC443089.
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  174. Farese RV, Linton MF, Young SG. Apolipoprotein B gene mutations affecting cholesterol levels. J Intern Med. 1992 Jun; 231(6):643-52. PMID: 1619387.
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  175. Farese RV, Garg A, Pierotti VR, Vega GL, Young SG. A truncated species of apolipoprotein B, B-83, associated with hypobetalipoproteinemia. J Lipid Res. 1992 Apr; 33(4):569-77. PMID: 1527480.
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  176. Farese RV, Biglieri EG, Shackleton CH, Irony I, Gomez-Fontes R. Licorice-induced hypermineralocorticoidism. N Engl J Med. 1991 Oct 24; 325(17):1223-7. PMID: 1922210.
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  177. Farese RV, Yost TJ, Eckel RH. Tissue-specific regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity by insulin/glucose in normal-weight humans. Metabolism. 1991 Feb; 40(2):214-6. PMID: 1988780.
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  178. Farese RV, Schambelan M, Hollander H, Stringari S, Jacobson MA. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus associated with foscarnet treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis. Ann Intern Med. 1990 Jun 15; 112(12):955-6. PMID: 2160217.
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  179. Hainsworth JD, Johnson DH, Farese RV, Macey JW, Vaughn WK, Greco FA. Limited stage small cell lung cancer: analysis of clinical prognostic factors. South Med J. 1987 Dec; 80(12):1518-22. PMID: 2827319.
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  180. Davis JS, Weakland LL, Farese RV, West LA. Luteinizing hormone increases inositol trisphosphate and cytosolic free Ca2+ in isolated bovine luteal cells. J Biol Chem. 1987 Jun 25; 262(18):8515-21. PMID: 3496333.
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  181. Davis JS, West LA, Weakland LL, Farese RV. Human chorionic gonadotropin activates the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-Ca2+ intracellular signalling system in bovine luteal cells. FEBS Lett. 1986 Nov 24; 208(2):287-91. PMID: 3023139.
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  182. Trimble ER, Bruzzone R, Biden TJ, Farese RV. Secretin induces rapid increases in inositol trisphosphate, cytosolic Ca2+ and diacylglycerol as well as cyclic AMP in rat pancreatic acini. Biochem J. 1986 Oct 15; 239(2):257-61. PMID: 3028367; PMCID: PMC1147275.
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  183. Davis JS, Weakland LL, West LA, Farese RV. Luteinizing hormone stimulates the formation of inositol trisphosphate and cyclic AMP in rat granulosa cells. Evidence for phospholipase C generated second messengers in the action of luteinizing hormone. Biochem J. 1986 Sep 01; 238(2):597-604. PMID: 3026357; PMCID: PMC1147174.
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  184. Davis JS, West LA, Farese RV. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone rapidly alters polyphosphoinositide metabolism in rat granulosa cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1984 Aug 16; 122(3):1289-95. PMID: 6089778.
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  185. Farese RV, Farese RV, Sabir MA, Larson RE, Trudeau WL, Barnes D. The mechanism of action of insulin on phospholipid metabolism in rat adipose tissue. Requirement for protein synthesis and a carbohydrate source, and relationship to activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase. Diabetes. 1984 Jul; 33(7):648-55. PMID: 6329860.
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  186. Farese RV. How to make sense out of the new thyroid tests. Med Times. 1980 Apr; 108(4):95-111. PMID: 6767171.
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  187. Farese RV. Hypothyroidism: primary or secondary? Hosp Pract. 1979 Feb; 14(2):153, 159. PMID: 428982.
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  188. Farese RV, Rodriguez ME, O'Malley BC, Jamieson E, Pollet RJ. Combined hypothalamic hypothyroidism and secondary adrenal insufficiency. Misdiagnosed as primary hypothyroidism. Arch Intern Med. 1979 Jan; 139(1):99-100. PMID: 104680.
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  189. Farese RV. Inhibition of cholesterol side chain cleavage by cyanoketone. Steroids. 1970 Feb; 15(2):245-50. PMID: 5459077.
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