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ArticleAdvanced functional materials2025

Local administration of lipid-silica nanohybrid-carried forskolin modulates thermogenesis in human adipocytes and impedes weight gain in mice.

David Zhang, Lien Tang, Tyler Hipple, Curtis D Mowry, C Jeffrey Brinker, Eric Brey, Achraf Noureddine, Maria A Gonzalez Porras

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Article in Advanced functional materials, 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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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Emerging Nanotechnology Strategies for Obesity Therapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  7. Anti-Obesity and Metabolic Effects of Forskolin in Obese C57BL/6J Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

David ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
Lien TangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Tyler HippleDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Curtis D MowryDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
C Jeffrey BrinkerDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Eric BreyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
Achraf NoureddineDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Maria A Gonzalez PorrasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Lei Zheng · 1991 to 2026
$59.1M
University of New Mexico Center for Metals in Biology and Medicine - equipment supplementP20GM130422 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI Matthew J Campen · 2020 to 2026
$20.4M
The Role of Extracellular Environment in Adipocyte FateF32DK122754 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI GONZALEZ PORRAS, MARIA ALEJANDRA · 2020 to 2022
$217k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK122754NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM130422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite encouraging outcomes of the eight FDA approved drugs in lessening obesity burden, they have been associated with side effects caused by the lack of direct action on the adipose tissue. Therefore, we report a nanomedicine that promotes the transformation of local fat-storage white adipocytes, associated with obesity, into thermogenic adipocytes, indicative of enhanced metabolism, to both human cells and mice. Our nanomedicine consisting of a lipid-silica nanohybrid that allows accommodation of the natural supplement forskolin has resulted in successful browning of mature human adipocytes in vitro through upregulating thermogenesis biomarkers on mature human adipocytes and in vivo in mice tissue (achieving 400- and 80-fold increases in UCP1 and Cox7A1, respectively), while significantly enhancing glucose uptake and lipolysis in an acute fashion and significantly preventing weight gain in high fat diet (60% HFD) mice compared to other treatments including liposomal medicine.

Indexed as

Adipose tissueForskolinHuman adipocytesLipidsMesoporous silica nanoparticlesObesityThermogenesisWeight gain prevention

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PMID40741219
PMCPMC12306489

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