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ReviewNeurogastroenterology and motility2025

Central mechanisms of emesis: A role for GDF15.

Tito Borner, Allison M Pataro, Bart C De Jonghe

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Review in Neurogastroenterology and motility, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. GDF15 and history of pregnancy-induced nausea as predictors of treatment-induced nausea severity in women following surgery for early-stage breast cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  8. Central mechanisms of emesis: A role for GDF15.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tito BornerDepartment of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Allison M PataroDepartment of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bart C De JongheDepartment of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

Neural Mechanisms of Nausea, Vomiting, and Energy DysregulationR01DK112812 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Bart C DE JONGHE, MATTHEW R HAYES · 2017 to 2026
$4.4M
Targeting the GDF15-GFRAL system to treat nausea and emesisR01DK130239 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DE JONGHE, BART C, DOYLE, ROBERT P · 2021 to 2024
$2.7M
NIDDK NIH HHSNIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK112812NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK130239
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundNausea and emesis are ubiquitously reported medical conditions and often present as treatment side effects along with polymorbidities contributing to detrimental life-threatening outcomes, such as poor nutrition, lower quality of life, and unfavorable patient prognosis. Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a stress response cytokine secreted by a wide variety of cell types in response to a broad range of stressors. Circulating GDF15 levels are elevated in a range of medical conditions characterized by cachexia and malaise. In recent years, GDF15 has gained scientific and translational prominence with the discovery that its receptor, GDNF family receptor α-like (GFRAL), is expressed exclusively in the hindbrain. GFRAL activation may results in profound anorexia and body weight loss, effects which have attracted interest for the pharmacological treatment of obesity. PURPOSE: This review highlights compelling emerging evidence indicating that GDF15 causes anorexia through the induction of nausea, emesis, and food aversions, which encourage a perspective on GDF15 system function in physiology and behavior beyond homeostatic energy regulation contexts. This highlights the potential role of GDF15 in the central mediation of nausea and emesis following a variety of physiological, and pathophysiological conditions such as chemotherapy-induced emesis, hyperemesis gravidarum, and cyclic vomiting syndrome.

Indexed as

Growth Differentiation Factor 15VomitingAnimalsAnorexiaHumansNauseaGDF15 protein, humanGrowth Differentiation Factor 15CINVemesisGDF15GFRALhyperemesismalaisenauseavomiting

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PMID39108013
PMCPMC11866100

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