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| Aguilar,Edenil Costa; Queiroz,Maria das Graças Mota Nobre; Oliveira,Dario Alves de; Oliveira,Neide Judith Faria de. |
| Caryocar brasiliense (popular name pequi) is widely consumed by the population of Brazilian Savannah. This fruit has a high concentration of monounsaturated fatty acids that can influence positively the lipid profile. In addition, pequi also has an important concentration of saturated fatty acids which, in turn, is associated with atherosclerosis risk. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a pequi-supplemented diet on blood lipid and glucose levels and hepatic histology. Female Albino swiss mice were divided into three groups and fed a standard chow diet (control group), chow diet supplemented with 33% pequi nut (nut group), and chow diet supplemented with 33% pequi pulp (pulp group). After 6 weeks, following an overnight fast, blood and liver were... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Lipids; Diet atherosclerosis monounsaturated fatty acid. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612011000400008 |
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| Teixeira,Lílian Gonçalves; Lages,Priscilla Ceci; Jascolka,Tatianna Lemos; Aguilar,Edenil Costa; Soares,Fabíola Lacerda Pires; Pereira,Solange Silveira; Beltrão,Nathalia Ribeiro Mota; Matoso,Rafael de Oliveira; Nascimento,André Márcio do; Castilho,Rachel Oliveira de; Leite,Jacqueline Isaura Alvarez. |
| White tea is an unfermented tea made from young shoots of Camellia sinensis protected from sunlight to avoid polyphenol degradation. Although its levels of catechins are higher than those of green tea (derived from the same plant), there are no studies addressing the relationship between this tea and obesity associated with oxidative stress.The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of white tea on obesity and its complications using a diet induced obesity model. Forty male C57BL/6 mice were fed a high-fat diet to induce obesity (Obese group) or the same diet supplemented with 0.5% white tea extract (Obese + WTE) for 8 weeks. Adipose tissue, serum lipid profile, and oxidative stress were studied. White tea supplementation was not able to reduce... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: High-fat diet; Obesity; Oxidative stress; White tea; Camellia sinensis. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612012000400015 |
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