“…These include these medications lowering the resting energy expenditure (REE) (Sharpe et al, 2005), causing an increased food intake (Gothelf et al, 2002), interactions of drugs with the histamine receptor (Kroeze et al, 2003) and the serotonin receptor 2C (Malhotra, 2004) and increased peripheral adipogenesis during preadipocyte differentiation (Yang et al, 2007). Several research groups have reported that clozapine induces differentiation of preadipocytes (Hemmrich et al, 2006;Yang et al, 2009;Vestri et al, 2007) and more recent studies have suggested that increased expression levels of the sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP-1) ) and its related proteins could be a potential mechanism for antipsychotic induced weight gain. Additionally, risperidone treatment has been reported to increase the rate of lipogenesis in primary cultured rat adipocytes (Vestri et al, 2007).…”