Effect of a high fat, high sucrose diet on the promotion of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in male rats: The ameliorative role of three natural compounds

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ragab, Sohair M M ^a   Abd Elghaffar, Sary Kh ^b   El Metwally, Tarek H ^c   Badr, Gamal ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed H ^d,e   Omar, Hossam M ^a  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

^c Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Berberine; Dyslipidemia; High fat high sucrose diet; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; O coumaric acid; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor ; Quercetin

Indexed keywords

BERBERINE; CHOLESTEROL; COUMARIC ACID; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; QUERCETIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOLIPIDEMIC ACTIVITY; LIPID DIET; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BERBERINE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; COUMARIC ACIDS; DIET, HIGH-FAT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIPIDS; LIVER; MALE; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PPAR GAMMA; QUERCETIN; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUCROSE;

EID: 84938352425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12944-015-0087-1     Document Type: Article

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