Francisco Ortega

University of Puerto Rico System — PR

Medicine · Health Sciences

50h-index9.3kcitations191works0.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Adipose Tissue and Metabolism(64), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases(52), MicroRNA in disease regulation(19), Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity(14), Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism(13)

Publications190 total

#2157 Post-transplant metabolomics: early prediction of renal function and possible therapeutic target discovery
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation·2025
Sniffing good makes me food
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology·2025Open Access
Defective Olfactomedin-2 connects adipocyte dysfunction to obesity
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
FROM NECK MASS TO CARDIAC CATASTROPHE: A CASE OF HIGH-GRADE B CELL CARDIAC LYMPHOMA
Journal of the American College of Cardiology·2025Open Access
Cellular composition and transcriptomics of subcutaneous adipose tissue linked to blood glycated haemoglobin
European Journal of Clinical Investigation·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Effects of Short-Term Almonds and Walnuts Intake on Serum Fatty Acid Composition, Metabolic Profile and Adiposity on Obese Adults
2024
A novel long non-coding RNA connects obesity to impaired adipocyte function
Molecular Metabolism·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Inflammatory response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide drives iron accumulation in human adipocytes
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Impaired Plakophilin-2 in obesity breaks cell cycle dynamics to breed adipocyte senescence
Nature Communications·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Semaphorin 4B is an ADAM17-cleaved adipokine that inhibits adipocyte differentiation and thermogenesis
Molecular Metabolism·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
A long non-coding RNA that harbors a SNP associated with type 2 diabetes regulates the expression of TGM2 gene in pancreatic beta cells
Frontiers in Endocrinology·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Liver lipopolysaccharide binding protein prevents hepatic inflammation in physiological and pathological non-obesogenic conditions
Pharmacological Research·2022· 23 citedOpen Access
The relevance of EGFR, ErbB receptors and neuregulins in human adipocytes and adipose tissue in obesity
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Adipose tissue cysteine dioxygenase type 1 is associated with an anti-inflammatory profile, impacting on systemic metabolic traits
EBioMedicine·2022· 32 citedOpen Access
Serum neuregulin 4 is negatively correlated with insulin sensitivity in humans and impairs mitochondrial respiration in HepG2 cells
Frontiers in Physiology·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Downregulation of hepatic lipopolysaccharide binding protein improves lipogenesis-induced liver lipid accumulation
Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
A compound directed against S6K1 hampers fat mass expansion and mitigates diet-induced hepatosteatosis
JCI Insight·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Downregulation of peripheral lipopolysaccharide binding protein impacts on perigonadal adipose tissue only in female mice
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Diabetes Does Not Increase the Risk of Hospitalization Due to COVID-19 in Patients Aged 50 Years or Older in Primary Care—APHOSDIAB—COVID-19 Multicenter Study
Journal of Clinical Medicine·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Olfactomedin 2 deficiency protects against diet-induced obesity
Metabolism·2022· 16 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

José Manuel Fernández‐Real(49), José María Moreno‐Navarrete(37), Wifredo Ricart(37), Mònica Sabater(16), Gema Frühbeck(15), Josep M. Mercader(10), Francisco J. Tinahones(8), Javier Gómez‐Ambrosi(7), Gerard Pardo(6), José Ignacio Rodríguez‐Hermosa(6), Gemma Xifra(6), Ester Guerra(5), Victoria Catalán(5), Belén Peral(5), María Moreno(5), Judit Bassols(5), Marta Serrano(4), Javier Salvador(4), Neus Pueyo(3), Bartomeu Ruiz(3)