Pharmacotherapy of obesity: available medications and drugs under investigation

E Pilitsi, OM Farr, SA Polyzos, N Perakakis… - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Obesity is a chronic disease with a continuously rising prevalence that currently affects more
than half a billion people worldwide. Energy balance and appetite are highly regulated via …

Obesity-induced brain neuroinflammatory and mitochondrial changes

LO Schmitt, JM Gaspar - Metabolites, 2023 - mdpi.com
Obesity is defined as abnormal and excessive fat accumulation, and it is a risk factor for
developing metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive deficits. Obesity is …

“Hypothalamic microinflammation” paradigm in aging and metabolic diseases

D Cai, S Khor - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Under conditions leading to aging and metabolic syndrome, the hypothalamus atypically
undergoes proinflammatory signaling activation leading to a chronic and stable background …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease

CA Beddows, F Shi, AL Horton, S Dalal, P Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes are marked by insulin resistance,.
Cells within the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC), which are crucial for regulating …

Adipose tissue, systematic inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases

APA Boleti, PHO Cardoso, BEF Frihling… - Neural Regeneration …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Obesity is associated with several diseases, including mental health. Adipose tissue is
distributed around the internal organs, acting in the regulation of metabolism by storing and …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic insight into high-fat diet-induced metabolic inflammation in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus

R Ullah, N Rauf, G Nabi, S Yi, Z Yu-Dong… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
A high-fat diet (HFD) is linked with cytokines production by non-neuronal cells within the
hypothalamus, which mediates metabolic inflammation. These cytokines then activate …

Astrocytic pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase-2 is involved in hypothalamic inflammation in mouse models of diabetes

MH Rahman, A Bhusal, JH Kim, MK Jha… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Hypothalamic inflammation plays an important role in disrupting feeding behavior and
energy homeostasis as well as in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes. Here, we show …

Hypothalamic inflammation in metabolic disorders and aging

A Bhusal, MH Rahman, K Suk - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2022 - Springer
The hypothalamus is a critical brain region for the regulation of energy homeostasis. Over
the years, studies on energy metabolism primarily focused on the neuronal component of …

Peripheral and central macrophages in obesity

S Mukherjee, S Skrede, M Haugstøyl… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation. Excessive nutrient intake causes
adipose tissue expansion, which may in turn cause cellular stress that triggers infiltration of …

Deep brain stimulation for obesity: a review and future directions

DA Formolo, JM Gaspar, HM Melo, T Eichwald… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The global prevalence of obesity has been steadily increasing. Although pharmacotherapy
and bariatric surgeries can be useful adjuvants in the treatment of morbid obesity, they may …