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. 2021 Oct 31;78(23):7469–7490. doi: 10.1007/s00018-021-04002-6

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Effect of the HFD in hypothalamic and plasmatic endocannabinoids, leptin levels and BAT thermogenesis during obesity progression. During HFD-induced obesity, the progressive increase of the body weight gain (green line) positively correlates with the increase of leptinemia (purple line) and circulating endocannabinoid levels (orange line). After 7 days of HFD feeding, a transient increase of hypothalamic endocannabinoid levels was observed (red line) that positively correlated with BAT thermogenesis (blue line). This early increase of hypothalamic endocannabinoids and BAT thermogenesis gradually decreases after longer periods of HFD feeding