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ReviewJournal of pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences : a publication of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Societe canadienne des sciences pharmaceutiques2024

Weighing in on the role of brown adipose tissue for treatment of obesity.

Brinda Prapaharan, Micah Lea, Jacqueline L Beaudry

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Review in Journal of pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences : a publication of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Societe canadienne des sciences pharmaceutiques, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Effect of Diet on HDL in Obesity.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brinda PrapaharanTemerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Micah LeaTemerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jacqueline L BeaudryTemerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) activation is an emerging target for obesity treatments due to its thermogenic properties stemming from its ability to shuttle energy through uncoupling protein 1 (Ucp1). Recent rodent studies show how BAT and white adipose tissue (WAT) activity can be modulated to increase the expression of thermogenic proteins. Consequently, these alterations enable organisms to endure cold-temperatures and elevate energy expenditure, thereby promoting weight loss. In humans, BAT is less abundant in obese subjects and impacts of thermogenesis are less pronounced, bringing into question whether energy expending properties of BAT seen in rodents can be translated to human models. Our review will discuss pharmacological, hormonal, bioactive, sex-specific and environmental activators and inhibitors of BAT to determine the potential for BAT to act as a therapeutic strategy. We aim to address the feasibility of utilizing BAT modulators for weight reduction in obese individuals, as recent studies suggest that BAT's contributions to energy expenditure along with Ucp1-dependent and -independent pathways may or may not rectify energy imbalance characteristic of obesity.

Indexed as

Adipose Tissue, BrownEnergy MetabolismObesityAnimalsAnti-Obesity AgentsHumansThermogenesisUncoupling Protein 1Anti-Obesity AgentsUncoupling Protein 1brown adipose tissueenergy expenditureobesityweight losswhite adipose tissue

Identifiers

PMID39087083
PMCPMC11290130

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