Ginkgo biloba Extract (GbE): Promising Therapeutic Perspective to Treat Obesity and Diabetes

Bruna Kelly Sousa Hirata
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Bruna Kelly Sousa Hirata: Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Current Research in Diabetes & Obesity Journal, 2017, vol. 3, issue 2, 44-46

Abstract: Since obesity and its co-morbidities have become huge public health problems, it is uncountable the requirement of new approaches to treat both obesity and its related disorders. Conventional pharmacological anti-obesogenic therapies present several unwanted effects which represent serious health risk. Therefore, new therapeutic alternatives are necessary to control body weight gain in order to reduce the associated diseases development, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). Ginkgo biloba Extract (GbE) has been recently described as a potential anti-obesogenic and hypoglycemic agent since it reduced food/energy intake, body weight gain and visceral adiposity as well as improved insulin signaling and sensitivity in obese rats. Considering the beneficial effects observed in an experimental model of obesity, GbE has been pointed as a new therapeutic perspective for both obesity and T2D treatment.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/CRDOJ.2017.03.555610

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