Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01227-4
Olivia Tysoe
{"title":"Exposure to fat odour during development predisposes offspring to obesity","authors":"Olivia Tysoe","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01227-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01227-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145770753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01224-7
João Manoel Alves
{"title":"Two roads to thermogenesis: vascular and parenchymal sympathetic innervation of brown adipose tissue.","authors":"João Manoel Alves","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01224-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01224-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":"370 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145765484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01225-6
Benjamin E Clayton, David A Guertin
{"title":"Brown adipose tissue remains hot.","authors":"Benjamin E Clayton, David A Guertin","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01225-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01225-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145768615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-12DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01219-4
Timo D Müller
{"title":"Advances in incretin-based drug discovery in 2025.","authors":"Timo D Müller","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01219-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01219-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145732748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01208-7
Maiko Sho,Rehana Qureshi,Joyce Slingerland
Many diseases, including breast cancer, increase in women after menopause and with obesity. This Review addresses novel insights that link obesity, oestrogens, inflammation and breast cancer. Adipose tissue is chronically inflamed in obesity owing to pre-adipocyte expansion and activation of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), which upregulate pro-inflammatory cytokines. Obesity also impairs immunosurveillance. Emerging data indicate that the major oestrogens before and after menopause have opposing effects on inflammation. In contrast to the anti-inflammatory properties of premenopausal 17β-oestradiol, the dominant postmenopausal oestrogen, oestrone, is pro-inflammatory. Oestrone is synthesized in adipocytes, therefore the expanded adipose tissue biomass in obesity increases oestrone levels in both men and women, promoting NF-κB-driven inflammation. These pro-inflammatory effects of oestrone are also oncogenic, promoting breast cancer progression in laboratory models. The dominance of oestrone and loss of 17β-oestradiol might underlie the increased prevalence of hormone-responsive breast cancer after menopause, particularly in the context of obesity. Although oestrogens account for much of the excess breast cancer risk with obesity, data on 17β-oestradiol and oestrone levels in the breast and circulation in postmenopausal women, whether or not obesity is present, are limited. Weight loss is associated with reduced breast cancer risk and improved outcomes. The opportunity to use potent weight loss drugs as adjuncts to cancer therapy is discussed.
{"title":"Oestrogen changes at menopause: insights into obesity-associated breast risk and outcomes.","authors":"Maiko Sho,Rehana Qureshi,Joyce Slingerland","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01208-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01208-7","url":null,"abstract":"Many diseases, including breast cancer, increase in women after menopause and with obesity. This Review addresses novel insights that link obesity, oestrogens, inflammation and breast cancer. Adipose tissue is chronically inflamed in obesity owing to pre-adipocyte expansion and activation of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), which upregulate pro-inflammatory cytokines. Obesity also impairs immunosurveillance. Emerging data indicate that the major oestrogens before and after menopause have opposing effects on inflammation. In contrast to the anti-inflammatory properties of premenopausal 17β-oestradiol, the dominant postmenopausal oestrogen, oestrone, is pro-inflammatory. Oestrone is synthesized in adipocytes, therefore the expanded adipose tissue biomass in obesity increases oestrone levels in both men and women, promoting NF-κB-driven inflammation. These pro-inflammatory effects of oestrone are also oncogenic, promoting breast cancer progression in laboratory models. The dominance of oestrone and loss of 17β-oestradiol might underlie the increased prevalence of hormone-responsive breast cancer after menopause, particularly in the context of obesity. Although oestrogens account for much of the excess breast cancer risk with obesity, data on 17β-oestradiol and oestrone levels in the breast and circulation in postmenopausal women, whether or not obesity is present, are limited. Weight loss is associated with reduced breast cancer risk and improved outcomes. The opportunity to use potent weight loss drugs as adjuncts to cancer therapy is discussed.","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145657081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1038/s41574-025-01214-9
Sun-Wei Guo
{"title":"Cracking the enigma of adenomyosis: prospects and challenges","authors":"Sun-Wei Guo","doi":"10.1038/s41574-025-01214-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01214-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18916,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Endocrinology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":40.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145645152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}