Vardanyan GS, Harutyunyan HS, Aghajanov MI, Vardanyan RS.
Neurochemical regulators of food behavior for pharmacological treatment of obesity: current status and future prospects.
Future Med Chem 2020;
12:1865-84. [PMID:
33040605 DOI:
10.4155/fmc-2019-0361]
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Abstract
In recent decades, obesity has become a pandemic disease and appears to be an ultimate medical and social problem. Existing antiobesity drugs show low efficiency and a wide variety of side effects. In this review, we discuss possible mechanisms underlying brain-gut-adipose tissue axis, as well as molecular biochemical characteristics of various neurochemical regulators of body weight and appetite. Multiple brain regions are responsible for eating behavior, hedonic eating and food addiction. The existing pharmacological targets for treatment of obesity were reviewed as well.
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