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Zhenyu Zhong

@zhenyuzhong.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. We study inflammation, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Opinons are my own.

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Zhenyu Zhong @zhenyuzhong.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Why is obesity often associated with dysregulated, low-grade chronic inflammation? In our new paper in @science.org we show that obesity rewires nucleotide metabolism in immune cells, making inflammatory responses much easier to trigger. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Nucleotide metabolic rewiring enables NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation in obesity
Obesity is a major disease risk factor due to obesity-associated hyperinflammation. We found that obesity induced Nod-like receptor pyrin domain–containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome hyperactivation and e...
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