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The obesity pipeline: current strategies in the development of anti-obesity drugs
- Source :
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 5:919-931
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2006.
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Abstract
- This review provides a summary of currently available pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of obesity, along with an overview of the pipeline of products currently in development, and the key mechanisms on which the major development candidates are based. In particular, the recent increase in understanding of the role of gut peptides in energy homeostasis is highlighted as a promising source of potential future obesity therapies.
- Subjects :
- Central Nervous System
Pharmacology
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Lipase
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Pipeline (software)
Obesity
Energy homeostasis
Gastrointestinal Hormones
Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1
Anti obesity
Drug Discovery
medicine
Animals
Humans
Anti-Obesity Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Intensive care medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14741784 and 14741776
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bfba2464b817f1fa1eb187bf1959be26