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ArticleNutrients2017

Ferulic Acid on Glucose Dysregulation, Dyslipidemia, and Inflammation in Diet-Induced Obese Rats: An Integrated Study.

Norma Julieta Salazar-López, Humberto Astiazarán-García, Gustavo A González-Aguilar, Guadalupe Loarca-Piña, Josafat-Marina Ezquerra-Brauer, J Abraham Domínguez Avila, Maribel Robles-Sánchez

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Article in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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7 authors.

Norma Julieta Salazar-LópezDepartamento de Investigación y Posgrado en Alimentos, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Luis Encinas y Rosales S/N, Colonia Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83000 Sonora, Mexico. njulietasl@yahoo.es.
Humberto Astiazarán-GarcíaCentro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C., Carretera a La Victoria km 0.6, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83304 Sonora, Mexico. hastiazaran@ciad.mx.
Gustavo A González-AguilarCentro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C., Carretera a La Victoria km 0.6, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83304 Sonora, Mexico. gustavo@ciad.mx.
Guadalupe Loarca-PiñaDepartamento de Investigación y Posgrado en Alimentos, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Cerro de Las Campanas, S/N, Colonia Las Campanas, Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, C.P. 76010 Querétaro, Mexico. loarca@uaq.mx.
Josafat-Marina Ezquerra-BrauerDepartamento de Investigación y Posgrado en Alimentos, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Luis Encinas y Rosales S/N, Colonia Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83000 Sonora, Mexico. ezquerra@guayacan.mx.
J Abraham Domínguez AvilaCentro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C., Carretera a La Victoria km 0.6, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83304 Sonora, Mexico. abrahamdominguez9@yahoo.com.
Maribel Robles-SánchezDepartamento de Investigación y Posgrado en Alimentos, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Luis Encinas y Rosales S/N, Colonia Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora, C.P. 83000 Sonora, Mexico. rsanchez@guayacan.uson.mx.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is considered to be a low-grade chronic inflammatory process, which is associated with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. An integral evaluation of the effects of ferulic acid on biomarkers of glucose dysregulation, dyslipidemia, inflammation, and antioxidant potential induced by a high-fat diet (HFD) in rats was carried out. Three groups of male Wistar rats (six per group) consumed a basal diet (BD), which was supplemented with either lard at 310 g/kg (HFD) or lard and ferulic acid at 2 g/kg (HFD + FA), ad libitum for eight weeks. Body weight gain, hyperplasia, and hypertrophy in abdominal fat tissues were higher in the HFD group than in the HFD+FA group. The rats fed a HFD + FA significantly inhibited the increase in plasma lipids and glucose, compared with the HFD group. Biomarkers associated with inflammation were found at higher concentrations in the serum of rats fed a HFD than the HFD + FA group. Plasma antioxidant levels were lower in HFD rats compared to rats fed the HFD + FA. These results suggest that ferulic acid improves the obesogenic status induced by HFD, and we elucidated the integral effects of ferulic acid on a biological system.

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AnimalsBlood GlucoseCoumaric AcidsDietary FatsDiet, High-FatDyslipidemiasInflammationLipidsMaleObesityRandom AllocationRatsBlood GlucoseCoumaric AcidsDietary Fatsferulic acidLipidsdyslipidemiaferulic acidglucose dysregulationhigh fat dietinflammation

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PMID28661434
PMCPMC5537790

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