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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Endocannabinoids in Body Weight Control.

Henrike Horn, Beatrice Böhme, Laura Dietrich, Marco Koch

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system in liver diseases.Clinical and experimental hepatology · 2024
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  12. Anti-obesity drug discovery: advances and challenges.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2022
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  16. The Peripheral Cannabinoid Receptor Type 1 (CBMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Henrike HornInstitute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Henrike.Horn@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.
Beatrice BöhmeInstitute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Beatrice.Schuetzelt@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.
Laura DietrichInstitute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. lauri.dietrich@yahoo.de.
Marco KochInstitute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. marco.koch@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.
Leipzig University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintenance of body weight is fundamental to maintain one's health and to promote longevity. Nevertheless, it appears that the global obesity epidemic is still constantly increasing. Endocannabinoids (eCBs) are lipid messengers that are involved in overall body weight control by interfering with manifold central and peripheral regulatory circuits that orchestrate energy homeostasis. Initially, blocking of eCB signaling by first generation cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1) inverse agonists such as rimonabant revealed body weight-reducing effects in laboratory animals and men. Unfortunately, rimonabant also induced severe psychiatric side effects. At this point, it became clear that future cannabinoid research has to decipher more precisely the underlying central and peripheral mechanisms behind eCB-driven control of feeding behavior and whole body energy metabolism. Here, we will summarize the most recent advances in understanding how central eCBs interfere with circuits in the brain that control food intake and energy expenditure. Next, we will focus on how peripheral eCBs affect food digestion, nutrient transformation and energy expenditure by interfering with signaling cascades in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, fat depots and endocrine glands. To finally outline the safe future potential of cannabinoids as medicines, our overall goal is to address the molecular, cellular and pharmacological logic behind central and peripheral eCB-mediated body weight control, and to figure out how these precise mechanistic insights are currently transferred into the development of next generation cannabinoid medicines displaying clearly improved safety profiles, such as significantly reduced side effects.

Indexed as

allosteric CB1 ligandsanorexiabody weightcancer cachexiacannabinoid type 1 receptorCB1endocannabinoidsobesity

Identifiers

PMID29849009
PMCPMC6027162
OpenAlexW2806563128

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