TY - JOUR
T1 - Ferulic acid on glucose dysregulation, dyslipidemia, and inflammation in diet-induced obese rats
T2 - An integrated study
AU - Salazar-López, Norma Julieta
AU - Astiazarán-García, Humberto
AU - González-Aguilar, Gustavo A.
AU - Loarca-Piña, Guadalupe
AU - Ezquerra-Brauer, Josafat Marina
AU - Domínguez Avila, J. Abraham
AU - Robles-Sánchez, Maribel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Dyslipidemia
KW - Ferulic acid
KW - Glucose dysregulation
KW - High fat diet
KW - Inflammation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021912478&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/nu9070675
DO - 10.3390/nu9070675
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 28661434
SN - 2072-6643
VL - 9
JO - Nutrients
JF - Nutrients
IS - 7
M1 - 675
ER -