Supplementation of bitter melon to rats fed a high-fructose diet during gestation and lactation ameliorates fructose-induced dyslipidemia and hepatic oxidative stress in male offspring

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1664-1672

  Ching, Rachel H H ^a   Yeung, Lilian O Y ^a   Tse, Iris M Y ^a   Sit, Wai Hung ^a   Li, Edmund T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID OXIDATION; LIPOGENESIS; LIVER; LIVER MICROSOME; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA TRANSPORT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

CUCUMIS; RATTUS;

EID: 80052557042     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.142299     Document Type: Article

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