Journal
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION
Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 349-358Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jpn.12452
Keywords
obesity; metabolism; beta-glucan; fibre; diet; functional food
Funding
- Foundation for Research of the State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- Higher Education Personnel Training Coordination (CAPES)
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We investigated the effects of beta-glucans (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) ingestion on metabolic parameters of Wistar rats receiving high-fat diet. The experimental period was divided into two stages: in the first one, the animals were divided into two groups containing 12 animals each. The first group received commercial feed and the second received high-fat diet containing 20% of pork fat during 60 days. At the end of this period, body weight, blood glucose and Lee index were assessed. In the second stage, those 24 animals were redivided into four groups: (C) - control diet; (CB) - control diet and treated with Beta-glucan (BG); (O) - obese animals and (OB) obese animals treated with BG. Animals from groups CB and OB received 30 mg/kg of BG dissolved in saline solution by gavage. Animals from groups C and O received only saline solution for 28 days. The design used was totally randomized in 2 9 2 factorial scheme. Data were submitted to analysis of variance (ANOVA). Animals from OB group showed inferior levels (p < 0.05) of total cholesterol (13.33%), triacylglycerols (16.77%) and blood glucose (23.97%) when compared to the animals from group O. The use of BG has provided smaller increase in Lee index (p < 0.05), without promoting alteration in feed and water consumption, organs weight, HDL-C, LDL+ VLDL-C, carcass composition, villus/crypt ratio, and pancreas, kidney and stomach histology. BG from S. cerevisiae promoted beneficial metabolic effects in rats receiving high-fat diet.
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