The role of lipotropins as hematopoietic factors and their potential therapeutic use

Abstract

Lipotropins are peptides that act as hormones that are released from a common precursor together with other physiologically important peptides; their function is to mobilize the lipids that are stored in adipocytes as an energy reserve. This review will explain the existing scientific evidence on the action of lipotropins in adipocytes and, specifically, when these lipotropins activate bone marrow adipocytes to function as hematopoietic factors and suggest the potential therapeutic use of lipotropins based on these effects.