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Abstract A pandemic of obesity is contributing importantly to the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome characterized by hypertension, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia. In turn, the metabolic syndrome is contributing to vascular disease and the accelerating epidemic of chronic renal failure....
Abstract The effects of the endocannabinoids anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) upon rat C6 glioma cell proliferation were examined and compared with a series of synthetic cannabinoids and related compounds. Cells were treated with the compounds each day and cell proliferation was...