Dietary saponins of sea cucumber alleviate orotic acid-induced fatty liver in rats via PPARα and SREBP-1c signaling

Table 3 The effect of SSC on body weight, food intake, adipose weight and liver weight in rats

	Con	OA	OA+0.01%	OA+0.03%	OA+0.05%
Body weight, g	198.33 ± 6.76	199.71 ± 5.53	195.15 ± 4.74	196.00 ± 6.24	193.00 ± 7.93
Food intake, g/d	21.42 ± 0.90	20.77 ± 1.07	21.21 ± 0.93	21.81 ± 1.01	21.19 ± 1.05
Perirenal adipose, g/100 g BW	0.31 ± 0.04	0.34 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.03	0.29 ± 0.04	0.24 ± 0.03*
Epididymal adipose, g/100 g BW	0.67 ± 0.04	0.78 ± 0.03^#	0.82 ± 0.04	0.78 ± 0.05	0.73 ± 0.06
Liver weight, g/100 g BW	3.83 ± 0.05	4.37 ± 0.18^##	4.39 ± 0.11	4.28 ± 0.07	4.39 ± 0.11

Data were given as mean ± standard error of the mean of seven rats. # P < 0.05, # # P < 0.01 different from the control group; * P < 0.05 different from the OA-fed group.
Rats were fed experimental diets for 10 d.

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