The mechanism by which safflower yellow decreases body fat mass and improves insulin sensitivity in HFD-induced obese mice

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Zhu, Huijuan ^a   Wang, Xiangqing ^a   Pan, Hui ^a   Dai, Yufei ^a   Li, Naishi ^a   Wang, Linjie ^a   Yang, Hongbo ^a   Gong, Fengying ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Insulin sensitivity; Insulin signaling pathway; Obesity; PGC1 ; Safflower yellow (SY)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PROTEIN KINASE B; SAFFLOWER EXTRACT; SAFFLOWER YELLOW; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FAT MASS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 84974555739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2016.00127     Document Type: Article

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