Ameliorating agent for obesity-related metabolic disease

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a drug containing, as an active ingredient, a low-molecular-weight compound that ameliorates obesity-related metabolic diseases, for example, exhibits anti-obesity action without reduction of food intake through binding to Helz2 to lower its action, on the basis of the fact that Helz2 is intensely expressed in the liver both in humans and mice, and expression levels are significantly increased in the human liver with NAFLD, as an obesity-related metabolic disease, and in fatty liver in obese mice. The present invention provides an ameliorating agent for an obesity-related metabolic disease, in particular, an ameliorating agent for fatty liver, the ameliorating agent characterized by containing guanabenz or a salt of guanabenz as an active ingredient.

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