IGOB131, a novel seed extract of the West African plant Irvingia gabonensis, significantly reduces body weight and improves metabolic parameters in overweight humans in a randomized double-blind placebo controlled investigation

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ngondi, Judith L ^a   Etoundi, Blanche C ^a   Nyangono, Christine B ^a   Mbofung, Carl M F ^b   Oben, Julius E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NGAOUNDERE   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; IGOB 131; IRVINGIA GABONENSIS EXTRACT; LEPTIN; LIPID; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CELLULOSE; CHOLESTEROL; DIKANUT; IGOB131;

ADIPOGENESIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEROON; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FLATULENCE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; IRVINGIA GABONENSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; VOLUNTEER; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AFRICA; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT SEED;

IRVINGIA GABONENSIS;

ADIPONECTIN; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULOSE; CHOLESTEROL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FASTING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLACEBOS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 61849167344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-8-7     Document Type: Article

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