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Metabolic Pathways and Cell Signaling

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This chapter overviews the basic features of metabolic pathways concerning the three main classes of energetic substrates – carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids. Also, it considers the main signaling pathways that sense these molecules as well as the general hormonal systems that integrate whole-body metabolism in the fasting and fed states.

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  1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Fernando Abdulkader

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  1. Laboratory of Transplantation Immunobiology, Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences IV, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Niels Olsen Saraiva Camara

  2. Department of Pharmacology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jose C Alves-Filho

  3. Laboratory of Immunometabolism, Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Pedro Manoel Mendes de Moraes-Vieira

  4. Bernardo’s Lab, Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil

    Vinicius Andrade-Oliveira

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Abdulkader, F. (2022). Metabolic Pathways and Cell Signaling. In: Camara, N.O.S., Alves-Filho, J.C., Moraes-Vieira, P.M.M.d., Andrade-Oliveira, V. (eds) Essential Aspects of Immunometabolism in Health and Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86684-6_2

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