Romero-Silva, Samanta
Martínez, R Miguel Angel
Romero-Romero, Laura P.
Rodríguez, Oralia
Salas, G. C. Gerardo
Morel, Nicole
López-Muñoz, Francisco Javier
Lima-Mendoza, Luis Angel
Bravo, Guadalupe
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This study was designed to assess the effect of honey supplementation and sugar-based hypercaloric regimen on weight gain and blood pressure (BP) in Wistar rats. Animals were fed for 8 weeks with standard diet (S-free) or a hypercaloric diet (standard chow and 30% sugar in drinking water), (SF), or standard chow supplemented with fat and honey and 10% sugar in drinking water (HF). Overall weight gain and body fat levels were significantly higher in SF and HF than in S-free. Fat cells were significantly larger in SF compared with HF. Compared with SF and S-free, HF had higher glucose, but triglycerides, and LDLc levels were not different. BP was significantly higher in SF but not in HF compared to S-free. These observations indicate that honey may afford a protection against increase in BP and in fat cell size resulting from a hypercaloric diet. © 2011 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Bibliographic reference
Romero-Silva, Samanta ; Martínez, R Miguel Angel ; Romero-Romero, Laura P. ; Rodríguez, Oralia ; Salas, G. C. Gerardo ; et. al. Effects of honey against the accumulation of adipose tissue and the increased blood pressure on carbohydrate-induced obesity in rat. In: Letters in Drug Design & Discovery , Vol. 8, no. 1, p. 69-75 (2011)
Permanent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/163532