A green algae mixture of Scenedesmus and Schroederiella attenuates obesity-linked metabolic syndrome in rats
Kumar, Senthil Arun, Magnusson, Marie, Ward, Leigh C., Paul, Nicholas A., and Brown, Lindsay (2015) A green algae mixture of Scenedesmus and Schroederiella attenuates obesity-linked metabolic syndrome in rats. Nutrients, 7 (4). pp. 2771-2787.
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Abstract
This study investigated the responses to a green algae mixture of Scenedesmus dimorphus and Schroederiella apiculata (SC) containing protein (46.1% of dry algae), insoluble fibre (19.6% of dry algae), minerals (3.7% of dry algae) and omega-3 fatty acids (2.8% of dry algae) as a dietary intervention in a high carbohydrate, high fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome model in four groups of male Wistar rats. Two groups were fed with a corn starch diet containing 68% carbohydrates as polysaccharides, while the other two groups were fed a diet high in simple carbohydrates (fructose and sucrose in food, 25% fructose in drinking water, total 68%) and fats (saturated and trans fats from beef tallow, total 24%). High carbohydrate, high fat-fed rats showed visceral obesity with hypertension, insulin resistance, cardiovascular remodelling, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. SC supplementation (5% of food) lowered total body and abdominal fat mass, increased lean mass, and attenuated hypertension, impaired glucose and insulin tolerance, endothelial dysfunction, infiltration of inflammatory cells into heart and liver, fibrosis, increased cardiac stiffness, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the high carbohydrate, high fat diet-fed rats. This study suggests that the insoluble fibre or protein in SC helps reverse diet-induced metabolic syndrome.
Item ID: | 38531 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
Keywords: | visceral obesity; metabolic symptoms; microalgae; insoluble fibre |
Additional Information: | © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Funders: | MBD Energy Research and Development program for Biological Carbon Capture and Storage, Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2015 03:25 |
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