A review on pancreatic lipase inhibitors from natural sources: a potential target for obesity

Abstract

\n\n Obesity is a worldwide lifestyle disorder and its incidence is growing at an alarming rate. Pancreatic lipase (PL) plays a key role in lipid metabolism and hence a potential target for obesity treatment. There have been reports that many bioactive compounds from natural sources are vast pool of PL inhibitors. \n\n\n\n In search of natural pancreatic lipase inhibitors, the review summarizes the potential of natural products for their pancreatic lipase inhibitory activity.\n\n\n\n\n In this review the data obtained from literature search across various electronic databases and journal article publications are reviewed.\n\n\n\n\n The pancreatic lipase inhibitory activities of 61 biological sources were reviewed in this paper is backed by preclinical experimental evidence, either in vivo or in vitro.\n\n\n\n\n This article can be used as a ready to use reference for therapeutic lead molecules from plants, marine and insect derived natural products with PL inhibitory activity. The research is more focused on the discovery of more ingenious pancreatic lipase inhibitors with lesser consequences.\n