ReviewPurinergic signalling2025
Caffeine: a potential mechanism for anti-obesity.
Review in Purinergic signalling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Caffeine and Exercise in Obesity-Associated Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration: Mechanistic Insights into AMPK/SIRT1/PGC-1α, BDNF/TrkB, and NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Investigating the therapeutic effects of caffeine-naringenin combination on the repair of intestinal permeability and composition of gut microbiota in obese rats under long-term high-fat diet.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Editorial: Purinergic signalling-a perspective from China (II).Purinergic signalling · 2025Article
- Nanocarrier-enabled delivery of natural antiobesity agents.Nanomedicine (London, England) · 2025Review
- Association between the dietary index for gut microbiota and cardiometabolic multimorbidity: systemic immune-inflammation index and systemic inflammatory response index.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Transforming coffee from an empirical beverage to a targeted nutritional intervention: health effects of coffee's core functional components on chronic diseases.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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Abstract
Obesity refers to the excessive accumulation of fat caused by a long-term imbalance between energy intake (EI) and energy expenditure (EE). Over recent years, obesity has become a major public health challenge. Caffeine is a natural product that has been demonstrated to exert anti-obesity effects; however, the mechanisms responsible for the effect of caffeine on weight loss have yet to be fully elucidated. Most obesity-related deaths are due to cardiovascular disease. Recent research has demonstrated that caffeine can reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease; thus, it can be hypothesized that caffeine may represent a new therapeutic agent for weight loss. In this review, we synthesize data arising from clinical and animal studies over the last decade and discuss the potential mechanisms by which caffeine may induce weight loss, focusing particularly on increasing energy consumption, suppressing appetite, altering lipid metabolism, and influencing the gut microbiota. Finally, we summarize the major challenges associated with caffeine and anti-obesity research and highlight possible directions for future research and development.
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