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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism2014

Role of adiponectin in the metabolic effects of cannabinoid type 1 receptor blockade in mice with diet-induced obesity.

Joseph Tam, Grzegorz Godlewski, Brian J Earley, Liang Zhou, Tony Jourdan, Gergö Szanda, Resat Cinar, George Kunos

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Article in American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joseph TamLaboratory of Physiologic Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Grzegorz Godlewski
Brian J Earley
Liang Zhou
Tony Jourdan
Gergö Szanda
Resat Cinar
George Kunos
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · US

Funding

Endocannabinoids And Energy HomeostasisZIAAA000350 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI KUNOS, GEORGE · 2009 to 2025
$28.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adipocyte-derived hormone adiponectin promotes fatty acid oxidation and improves insulin sensitivity and thus plays a key role in the regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism and energy homeostasis. Chronic cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor blockade also increases lipid oxidation and improves insulin sensitivity in obese individuals or animals, resulting in reduced cardiometabolic risk. Chronic CB1 blockade reverses the obesity-related decline in serum adiponectin levels, which has been proposed to account for the metabolic effects of CB1 antagonists. Here, we investigated the metabolic actions of the CB1 inverse agonist rimonabant in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese adiponectin knockout (Adipo(-/-)) mice and their wild-type littermate controls (Adipo(+/+)). HFD-induced obesity and its hormonal/metabolic consequences were indistinguishable in the two strains. Daily treatment of obese mice with rimonabant for 7 days resulted in significant and comparable reductions in body weight, serum leptin, free fatty acid, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels in the two strains. Rimonabant treatment improved glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity to the same extent in Adipo(+/+) and Adipo(-/-) mice, whereas it reversed the HFD-induced hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and hepatocellular damage only in the former. The adiponectin-dependent, antisteatotic effect of rimonabant was mediated by reduced uptake and increased β-oxidation of fatty acids in the liver. We conclude that reversal of the HFD-induced hepatic steatosis and fibrosis by chronic CB1 blockade, but not the parallel reduction in adiposity and improved glycemic control, is mediated by adiponectin.

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AdiponectinAdiposityAnimalsBody WeightCannabinoid Receptor AntagonistsDiet, High-FatEnergy IntakeFatty LiverLeptinLipid MetabolismLipidsLiverMiceMice, KnockoutObesityPiperidinesAdiponectinCannabinoid Receptor AntagonistsCnr1 protein, ratLeptinLipidsPiperidinesPyrazolesReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Rimonabantcannabinoid type 1 antagonismfatty acid uptakehepatic steatosis and fibrosisinsulin resistance

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PMID24381003
PMCPMC3923090
OpenAlexW2156212334

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