Mechanisms underlying decreased hepatic triacylglycerol and cholesterol by dietary bitter melon extract in the rat

Lipids

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 495-503

  Senanayake, Gamarallage V K ^a,b   Fukuda, Nobuhiro ^a   Nshizono, Shoko ^a   Wang, Yu Ming ^c   Nagao, Koji ^c   Yanagita, Teruyoshi ^c   Iwamoto, Masako ^d   Ohta, Hideaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lipid metabolism; Liver cholesterol lowering effect; Liver triacylglycerol lowering effect; Momordica charantia

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CARBON OLEIC ACID C 14; CARBON SODIUM ACETATE C 14; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE I; CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE 1 GENE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIPOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER SLICE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MALE; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

CUCUMIS; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84863447240     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: 15589307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-012-3667-0     Document Type: Article

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