Molecular nutrition & food research 57(12) 2155-65 2013年12月
SCOPE: It is increasingly accepted that chronic inflammation is a feature of obesity. Obesity-induced inflammation triggers enhanced recruitment of macrophages into the adipose tissue. Depending on their phenotype, macrophages can be designated ei...
Molecular nutrition & food research 57(7) 1135-44 2013年7月
SCOPE: Inflammation plays a key role in obesity-related pathologies such as insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Hypertrophied adipocytes trigger the enhancement of macrophage infiltration and the release of various proinflammatory factors in o...
The British journal of nutrition 109(3) 383-93 2013年2月
Psyllium, a dietary fibre rich in soluble components, has both cholesterol- and TAG-lowering effects. Many studies have verified these actions using liver samples, whereas little information is available on the effects of psyllium treatment on oth...
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 77(7) 1416-9 2013年
α-Amino-β-carboxymuconate-ε-semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD) plays a key role in the regulation of NAD biosynthesis or the production of quinolinate from tryptophan (Trp). We investigated in this study the effect of phytol, a phytochemical known...
Tsuyoshi Goto Nobuyuki Takahashi Sota Kato Young-Il Kim Tatsuya Kusudo Aki Taimatsu Kahori Egawa Min-Sook Kang Takuro Hiramatsu Tomoya Sakamoto Taku Uemura Shizuka Hirai Misato Kobayashi Fumihiko Horio Teruo Kawada
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 60(48) 11952-8 2012年12月
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that regulates the expression of the genes involved in fatty acid oxidation. PPARα activators induce fatty acid oxidation in the liver, thereby improvi...
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