Sadagurski Lab

Neuroinflammation | Metabolism | Environmental Stressors & Aging

Publications


2025


Microglial ER stress response via IRE1α regulates diet-induced metabolic imbalance and obesity in mice


L. Stilgenbauer, Q. Chen, D. Pungi, N. James, H. Jayarathne, L. Koshko, S. Scofield, K. Zhang, M. Sadagurski

Molecular Metabolism, 2025


Liver injury severity determines skeletal deterioration: a shared pathophysiological axis between MASLD and osteoarthritis.


M. del Río-Moreno, S. Poudel, L. Stilgenbauer, J. Córdoba-Chacón, Marianna Sadagurski, R. Kineman, S. Yakar

GeroScience, 2025


Integrative multi-omics analysis of metabolic dysregulation induced by occupational benzene exposure in mice.


S. Scofield, L. Koshko, L. Stilgenbauer, Alix Booms, Roxanne Bérubé, Christopher Kassotis, Chung-Ho Lin, Hyejeong Jang, Seongho Kim, Paul Stemmer, Adelheid Lempradl, Marianna Sadagurski

Science of the Total Environment, 2025


Canagliflozin reprograms the aging hippocampus in genetically diverse UM-HET3 mice and attenuates Alzheimer’s-like pathology


Hashan Jayarathne, Dulmalika Herath Manchanayake, Nina Chimienti, Omar Kadri, Katherine Gurdziel, Seongho Kim, Hyejeong Jang, Brett C. Ginsburg, Richard T. Miller, S. Yakar, M. Sadagurski

bioRxiv, 2025


2024


The impact of inactivation of the GH/IGF axis during aging on healthspan.


S. Poudel, Ryan R Ruff, Zhiming He, Manisha Dixit, Godze Yildirim, Hashan Jayarathne, Dulmalika Herath Manchanayake, J. Basta‐Pljakic, Silvana Duran-Ortiz, Mitchell B. Schaffler, J. Kopchick, Marianna Sadagurski, S. Yakar

GeroScience, 2024


The Fourth Annual Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium


Jinoh Kim, Rochelle Buffenstein, A. Bronikowski, Natalia-Del Pilar Vanegas, Lorena Rosas, Paula Agudelo-Garcia, Ana L Mora, Mauricio Rojas, Davis A Englund, Nathan K. LeBrasseur, Allancer D C Nunes, Paul D. Robbins, Marian L Kohut, Siddhant Kothadiya, Rizia Bardhan, Christina Camell, Ines Sturmlechner, Jörg J. Goronzy, Chung-Yang Yeh, D. Lamming, Shijiao Huang, S. Leiser, Wilber Escorcia, Matthew S Gill, Jackson R. Taylor, S. Helfand, Sovannarith Korm, K. Gribble, Mariana Pehar, Magdalena Blaszkiewicz, Kristy L Townsend, Eric R. McGregor, Rozalyn M. Anderson, L. Stilgenbauer, Marianna Sadagurski, Alicia Taylor, Elizabeth McNeill, Thomas Stoeger, Hua Bai

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2024


Selective (α)-l-Rhamnosylation and Neuroprotective Activity Exploration of Cardiotonic Steroids.


Ryan Rutkoski, L. Debarba, L. Stilgenbauer, Tay Rosenthal, M. Sadagurski, P. Nagorny

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2024


Microglia Mediate Metabolic Dysfunction From Common Air Pollutants Through NF-κB Signaling


L. Debarba, Hashan Jayarathne, L. Stilgenbauer, Ana L Terra Dos Santos, L. Koshko, S. Scofield, R. Sullivan, A. Mandal, U. Klueh, M. Sadagurski

Diabetes, 2024


Canagliflozin treatment prevents follicular exhaustion and attenuates hallmarks of ovarian aging in genetically heterogenous mice.


J. Isola, Subhasri Biswas, Hashan Jayarathne, Chase R Hubbart, Jéssica D Hense, Satoshi Matsuzaki, Michael T. Kinter, Kenneth M. Humphries, Sarah R. Ocañas, Marianna Sadagurski, Michael B. Stout

GeroScience, 2024


Hypothalamic sex-specific metabolic shift by canagliflozin during aging


Hashan S. M. Jayarathne, Ryan Sullivan, Lukas Stilgenbauer, Lucas K. Debarba, Artur Kuchumov, Lisa Koshko, Sydney Scofield, Wanqing Liu, Brett C. Ginsburg, Richard A. Miller, Marianna Sadagurski

GeroScience, vol. 46, 2024 May, pp. 4479--4493


2023


Repurposing Canagliflozin to target brain aging


Hashan Jayarathne, Wanqing Liu, M. Sadagurski

Aging, 2023


Prenatal benzene exposure in mice alters offspring hypothalamic development predisposing to metabolic disease in later life.


L. Koshko, S. Scofield, L. Debarba, L. Stilgenbauer, P. Fakhoury, Hashan Jayarathne, J. E. Pérez-Mojica, E. Griggs, Adelheid Lempradl, M. Sadagurski

Chemosphere, 2023


Mast Cell Deficiency in Mice Attenuates Insulin Phenolic Preservative-Induced Inflammation


Shereen Kesserwan, M. Sadagurski, Limin Mao, U. Klueh

Biomedicines, 2023


Intrinsic sexual dimorphism in the placenta determines the differential response to benzene exposure


A. Maxwell, Nicholas K Adzibolosu, Anna Hu, Y. You, P. Stemmer, D. Ruden, M. Petriello, M. Sadagurski, L. Debarba, L. Koshko, J. Ramadoss, A. Nguyen, Darby Richards, A. Liao, G. Mor, Jiahui Ding

iScience, 2023


Growth hormone receptor (GHR) in AgRP neurons regulates thermogenesis in a sex-specific manner


L. Stilgenbauer, J. M. D. de Lima, L. Debarba, Manal Khan, L. Koshko, J. Kopchick, A. Bartke, A. Schneider, M. Sadagurski

GeroScience, 2023


Efficient SABRE-SHEATH Hyperpolarization of Potent Branched-Chain-Amino-Acid Metabolic Probe [1-13C]ketoisocaproate


Isaiah Adelabu, Md Raduanul H Chowdhury, Shiraz Nantogma, Clementinah Oladun, Firoz Ahmed, L. Stilgenbauer, M. Sadagurski, T. Theis, B. Goodson, E. Chekmenev

Metabolites, 2023


Editorial: Environmental toxicity in reproduction


Jiahui Ding, Yong Song, Chunyan Liu, Marianna Sadagurski

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023


Editorial: Environmental stressors and metabolic disease


Kezhong Zhang, Cuiqing Liu, Marianna Sadagurski, Qinghua Sun

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023


Canagliflozin retards age-related lesions in heart, kidney, liver, and adrenal gland in genetically heterogenous male mice


Jessica M. Snyder, Kerriann M. Casey, Andrzej Galecki, David E. Harrison, Hashan Jayarathne, Navasuja Kumar, Francesca Macchiarini, Nadia Rosenthal, Marianna Sadagurski, Adam B. Salmon, Randy Strong, Richard A. Miller, Warren Ladiges

GeroScience, vol. 45, 2023 Feb, pp. 385--397


2022


The Novel Peptide Chm-273s Has Therapeutic Potential for Metabolic Disorders: Evidence from In Vitro Studies and High-Sucrose Diet and High-Fat Diet Rodent Models


N. Mitkin, Vsevolod V. Pavshintcev, I. Sukhanova, I. Doronin, G. Babkin, M. Sadagurski, A. Malyshev

Pharmaceutics, 2022


Prenatal Pollutant Exposures and Hypothalamic Development: Early Life Disruption of Metabolic Programming


L. Koshko, S. Scofield, G. Mor, M. Sadagurski

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022


17-a-estradiol has sex-specific effects on neuroinflammation that are partly reversed by gonadectomy.


L. Debarba, Hashan Jayarathne, Richard A. Miller, M. Garratt, M. Sadagurski

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2022


Neuroprotective effects of Canagliflozin: Lessons from aged genetically diverse UM‐HET3 mice


Hashan S. M. Jayarathne, Lucas K. Debarba, Jacob J. Jaboro, Brett C. Ginsburg, Richard A. Miller, Marianna Sadagurski

Aging Cell, vol. 21, 2022 Jul, pp. e13653


2021


In Utero Maternal Benzene Exposure Predisposes to the Metabolic Imbalance in the Offspring.


L. Koshko, L. Debarba, Mikaela Sacla, J. M. D. de Lima, O. Didyuk, P. Fakhoury, M. Sadagurski

Toxicological Sciences, 2021


Hypothalamic GHR—SIRT1 Axis in Fasting


J. M. D. de Lima, Chidera Ubah, L. Debarba, Iven Ayyar, O. Didyuk, M. Sadagurski

Cells, 2021


ARCGHR Neurons Regulate Muscle Glucose Uptake


J. M. D. de Lima, L. Debarba, Alan C. Rupp, Nathan R. Qi, Chidera Ubah, Manal Khan, O. Didyuk, Iven Ayyar, M. Koch, D. Sandoval, M. Sadagurski

Cells, 2021


2020


Sex hormones underlying 17a-Estradiol effects on neuroinflammation


L. Debarba, Hashan Jayarathne, Richard A. Miller, M. Garratt, M. Sadagurski

bioRxiv, 2020


Paraventricular, subparaventricular and periventricular hypothalamic IRS4-expressing neurons are required for normal energy balance


Amy K. Sutton, Ian E Gonzalez, M. Sadagurski, Michael W. Rajala, Chunxia Lu, Margaret B. Allison, Jessica M. Adams, M. Myers, M. White, D. Olson

Scientific Reports, 2020


Metabolic Reprogramming by In Utero Maternal Benzene Exposure


L. Koshko, L. Debarba, Mikaela Sacla, J. M. D. de Lima, O. Didyuk, P. Fakhoury, M. Sadagurski

bioRxiv, 2020


Growth hormone receptor (GHR)-expressing neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus regulate glucose metabolism and energy homeostasis


J. M. D. de Lima, L. Debarba, Manal Khan, Chidera Ubah, O. Didyuk, Iven Ayyar, M. Koch, M. Sadagurski

bioRxiv, 2020


Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice


Richard A. Miller, David E. Harrison, David B. Allison, M. Bogue, L. Debarba, Vivian Diaz, Elizabeth Fernandez, A. Galecki, W. Garvey, Hashan Jayarathne, Navasuja Kumar, M. Javors, Warren C. Ladiges, F. Macchiarini, James F. Nelson, P. Reifsnyder, Nadia Rosenthal, M. Sadagurski, Adam B Salmon, Daniel L. Smith, Jessica M. Snyder, David B. Lombard, R. Strong

JCI Insight, 2020


Acarbose protects from central and peripheral metabolic imbalance induced by benzene exposure


L. Debarba, A. Mulka, J.B.M. Lima, O. Didyuk, P. Fakhoury, L. Koshko, A. Awada, K. Zhang, U. Klueh, M. Sadagurski

Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2020


2019


Sexual dimorphism in hypothalamic inflammation in the offspring of dams exposed to diet rich in high fat and branched chain amino acids.


M. Sadagurski, L. Debarba, J. Werneck-de-Castro, Abear Ali Awada, Tess A. Baker, E. Bernal-Mizrachi

American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2019


SAT-179 Low Grade Benzene Exposure Induces Metabolic Dysbalance and Hypothalamic Inflammation in Mice


L. Debarba, A. Mulka, A. Awada, O. Didyuk, D. Marcus, U. Klueh, M. Sadagurski

Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2019


2017


Hypothalamic growth hormone receptor (GHR) controls hepatic glucose production in nutrient-sensing leptin receptor (LepRb) expressing neurons


Gillian Cady, Taylor Landeryou, M. Garratt, J. Kopchick, Nathan R. Qi, D. Garcia-Galiano, C. Elias, M. Myers, Richard A. Miller, D. Sandoval, M. Sadagurski

Molecular Metabolism, 2017


Anti‐aging drugs reduce hypothalamic inflammation in a sex‐specific manner


M. Sadagurski, Gillian Cady, Richard A. Miller

Aging Cell, 2017


Pre-2017


Trimeprazine increases IRS2 in human islets and promotes pancreatic β cell growth and function in mice.


A. Kuznetsova, Yue Yu, J. Hollister-Lock, Lynn M Opare-Addo, A. Rozzo, M. Sadagurski, L. Norquay, Jessica E. Reed, Ilham El Khattabi, S. Bonner-Weir, G. Weir, Arun J Sharma, M. White

JCI Insight, 2016


Transient early food restriction leads to hypothalamic changes in the long-lived crowded litter female mice


M. Sadagurski, Taylor Landeryou, Gillian Cady, A. Bartke, E. Bernal-Mizrachi, Richard A. Miller

Physiological Reports, 2015


Growth hormone modulates hypothalamic inflammation in long‐lived pituitary dwarf mice


M. Sadagurski, Taylor Landeryou, Gillian Cady, J. Kopchick, E. List, D. Berryman, A. Bartke, Richard A. Miller

Aging Cell, 2015


Long-lived crowded-litter mice exhibit lasting effects on insulin sensitivity and energy homeostasis.


M. Sadagurski, Taylor Landeryou, M. Blandino-Rosano, Gillian Cady, L. Elghazi, D. Meister, Lauren See, A. Bartke, E. Bernal-Mizrachi, Richard A. Miller

American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2014


Differential Effects of Delayed Aging on Phenotype and Striatal Pathology in a Murine Model of Huntington Disease


S. Tallaksen-Greene, M. Sadagurski, Li Zeng, R. Mauch, Matthew Perkins, V. Banduseela, A. Lieberman, Richard A. Miller, H. Paulson, R. Albin

Journal of Neuroscience, 2014


Irs2 and Irs4 synergize in non-LepRb neurons to control energy balance and glucose homeostasis


M. Sadagurski, X. Dong, M. Myers, M. White

Molecular Metabolism, 2013


Integrating metabolism and longevity through insulin and IGF1 signaling.


M. Sadagurski, M. White

Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America (Print), 2013


IRS2 signaling in LepR-b neurons suppresses FoxO1 to control energy balance independently of leptin action.


M. Sadagurski, R. Leshan, C. Patterson, A. Rozzo, A. Kuznetsova, J. Skorupski, Justin C. Jones, R. DePinho, M. Myers, M. White

Cell Metabolism, 2012


IRS2 increases mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in a mouse model of Huntington disease.


M. Sadagurski, Zhiyong Cheng, A. Rozzo, Isabella Palazzolo, Gregory R. Kelley, X. Dong, D. Krainc, M. White

Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2011


Deletion of Irs2 causes reduced kidney size in mice: role for inhibition of GSK3β?


Rosemarie M. Carew, M. Sadagurski, R. Goldschmeding, F. Martin, M. White, D. Brazil

BMC Developmental Biology, 2010


Human IL6 enhances leptin action in mice


M. Sadagurski, L. Norquay, J. Farhang, K. D’Aquino, Kyle D. Copps, M. White

Diabetologia, 2009


Insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS‐1) plays a unique role in normal epidermal physiology


M. Sadagurski, S. Nofech-Mozes, G. Weingarten, M. White, T. Kadowaki, E. Wertheimer

Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2007


Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor Signaling Regulates Skin Development and Inhibits Skin Keratinocyte Differentiation


M. Sadagurski, S. Yakar, G. Weingarten, M. Holzenberger, C. Rhodes, D. Breitkreutz, D. Leroith, E. Wertheimer

Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2006


Insulin Receptor Substrate 2 Plays Diverse Cell-specific Roles in the Regulation of Glucose Transport*


M. Sadagurski, G. Weingarten, C. Rhodes, M. White, E. Wertheimer

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2005