Okra polysaccharide improves metabolic disorders in high-fat diet-induced obese C57BL/6 mice

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2075-2078

  Fan, Shengjie ^a   Guo, Lu ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Sun, Qinhu ^a   Yang, Baican ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Hyperlipidemia; Metabolic syndrome; Okra; Polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIVER X RECEPTOR; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ABELMOSCHUS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID DIET; LIVER; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; OKRA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DIABETES; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; METABOLIC SYNDROME; OKRA; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ABELMOSCHUS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL; DIET, HIGH-FAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; METABOLIC DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTORS; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTORS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84886790509     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201300054     Document Type: Article

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