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ReviewReviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders2026

Obestatin: canonical and unexpected functions.

Icia Santos-Zas, Uxia Gurriaran-Rodriguez, Tania Cid-Diaz, Saul Leal-Lopez, Felipe F Casanueva, Yolanda Pazos-Randulfe, Jesus P Camiña

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Review in Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Icia Santos-ZasGroup of Myology, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0310-9074
Uxia Gurriaran-RodriguezCIC bioGUNE, Bizkaia Technology Park, Derio, 48160, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5375-0142
Tania Cid-DiazDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1038-1153
Saul Leal-LopezGroup of Translational Research in Digestive System Diseases, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9396-6810
Felipe F CasanuevaEpigenomics in Endocrinology and Nutrition Group, Epigenomics Unit, IDIS, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela; CIBER de Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III,, Madrid , Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9052-8161
Yolanda Pazos-RandulfeGroup of Translational Research in Digestive System Diseases, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9766-2323
Jesus P CamiñaGroup of Myology, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain. jesus.perez@usc.es.ORCID 0000-0001-8106-4433

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The functions of appetite-regulating hormones have been studied for decades with the aim of finding a solution to the problem of obesity. Among these molecules, a small peptide called obestatin has emerged as an anorexigenic hormone, with an antagonistic effect to the hunger hormone ghrelin. After years of controversy regarding its function in food intake and the establishment of its receptor, GPR39, obestatin is currently being proposed as a powerful therapeutic candidate for pathologies associated with skeletal muscle. Several studies have demonstrated its key role as a regulatory peptide in myogenesis, thereby increasing regeneration in acute muscle damage. Obestatin promotes vascularization and reduces fibrosis in regenerated tissue, while also increasing muscle strength in muscle atrophy pathologies associated with glucocorticoid treatment and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This review describes the main mechanisms and signaling pathways regulated by the obestatin peptide in muscle pathology.

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GhrelinMuscle, SkeletalAnimalsHumansMuscle DevelopmentMuscular AtrophyReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSignal TransductionGhrelinobestatin, humanReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledAtrophyGPR39ObestatinSkeletal muscleWasting muscle

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PMID41784884
PMCPMC13167870

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