Anti-obesity effect of Nelumbo nucifera leaves extract in mice and rats

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 238-244

  Ono, Yuka ^a   Hattori, Eri ^a   Fukaya, Yukitaka ^a   Imai, Shoji ^a   Ohizumi, Yasushi ^b  

^a Matsuura Yakugyo Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti obesity; Energy expenditure; Metabolism; Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn; UCP3

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NELUMBO; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOGENESIS;

3T3-L1 CELLS; ADIPOCYTES; ALPHA-AMYLASE; ALPHA-AMYLASES; ANIMALS; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GLYCEROL; ION CHANNELS; LIPASE; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; NELUMBO; OBESITY; PANCREAS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; THERMOGENESIS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

NELUMBO NUCIFERA; NYMPHAEACEAE;

EID: 33646773975     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.12.036     Document Type: Article

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