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- Title
Rehabilitating rimonabant.
- Authors
Luft, Friedrich
- Abstract
The article discusses a study which examined the effect of cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) inhibition on cardiac function and remodeling after experimental myocardial infarction and after experimental metabolic syndrome. It provides a background of the drug rimonabant and its impact on appetite and persons trying to quit smoking. It has found that rimonabant improved ventricular function and led to weight loss in obese and hypertensive rats.
- Subjects
CANNABINOID receptors; RIMONABANT; MYOCARDIAL infarction; METABOLIC syndrome; OBESITY; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY rats; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2013, Vol 91, Issue 7, p777
- ISSN
0946-2716
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00109-013-1039-8