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Diet-induced obesity

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Analysis of diet-induced obesity experiments in male C57Bl/6J mice on a low-fat diet (LFD) or high-fat diet (HFD), demonstrating differences in body weight, energy intake, expenditure, and balance (Banks et al., Nature Metabolism, 2025).

Wheel running

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Wheel-running activity was continuously recorded over several days, showing hourly running patterns and cumulative wheel counts across alternating light and dark cycles.

Physical activity

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Physical activity was monitored by infrared beam breaks in the Promethion indirect calorimeter for one hour in either a mouse with ad libitum access to food or shortly after food removal. (Rubio et al., Mol Metabolism, 2023)

Dr. Philip Avigan

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Dr. Philip Avigan is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders. He currently holds the position of a Movement Disorders Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and is also a clinical fellow in Neurology at Harvard Catalyst, a role he commenced in mid-2024. Dr. Avigan earned...

A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments

Publication: Journal Article

Banks, Alexander S., David B. Allison, Thierry Alquier, , Steven N. Austad, Johan Auwerx, and Julio E. Ayala. 2025. “A Consensus Guide to Preclinical Indirect Calorimetry Experiments”. Nature Metabolism.

Microbial metabolism of mannitol as a tracer for the non-invasive measurement of oral-cecal transit

Publication: Journal Article

Vieira, Daniel E., Emily M. Langmeyer, Marissa D. Cortopassi, Deepti Ramachandran, William B. Rubio, Nagasuryaprasad Kotikalapudi, Yancheng Zhou, and Alexander S. Banks. Submitted. “Microbial Metabolism of Mannitol As a Tracer for the Non-Invasive Measurement of Oral-Cecal Transit”. BioRxiv, Submitted.

Clinical Work

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Antigen-Fc fusion therapy reduces severity of a model of pemphigus vulgaris without systemic immunosuppression.

Publication: Journal Article

Tavakolpour, Soheil, Ali Nili, Leïla A Munaretto, Chen Kai Huang, Taha Rakhshandehroo, Zachary Kim, Ava E Knight, et al. 2025. “Antigen-Fc Fusion Therapy Reduces Severity of a Model of Pemphigus Vulgaris Without Systemic Immunosuppression.”. Science Translational Medicine 17 (813): eadk6484.

Aberrant Glycosylation of IgG in Children With Active Lupus Nephritis Alters Podocyte Metabolism and Causes Podocyte Injury.

Publication: Journal Article

Bhargava, Rhea, Rohit Upadhyay, Cong Zhao, Prasad Katakam, Scott Wenderfer, Jing Chen, Hua He, Richard Cummings, Maria G Tsokos, and George C Tsokos. 2025. “Aberrant Glycosylation of IgG in Children With Active Lupus Nephritis Alters Podocyte Metabolism and Causes Podocyte Injury.”. Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 77 (10): 1421-32.

23] Facts About: Sugar Alcohols

Blog: December 02, 2025

By: Richard D. Cummings Sugar alcohols are a reduced form of a sugar in which the aldehyde or ketone is replaced with an -OH, and sometimes referred to as polyols. Strictly speaking, the definition of an alcohol is an organic compound with one or more hydroxyl groups (-OH) attached to a carbon, so...