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JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 99-106Publisher
KOREAN SOC CANCER PREVENTION
DOI: 10.15430/JCP.2018.23.2.99
Keywords
Leucrose; High fat diet; Lipogenesis; Liver
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2015R1A2A1A15056119]
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Obesity is currently one of the most serious public health problems and it can lead to numerous metabolic diseases. Leucrose, D-glucopyranosyl-alpha-(1-5)-D-fructopyranose, is an isoform of sucrose and it is naturally found in pollen and honey. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of leucrose on metabolic changes induced by a high-fat diet (HFD) that lead to obesity. C57BL/6 mice were fed a 60% HFD or a HFD with 25% (L25) or 50% (L50) of its total sucrose content replaced with leucrose for 12 weeks. Leucrose supplementation improved fasting blood glucose levels and hepatic triglyceride content. In addition, leucrose supplementation reduced mRNA levels of lipogenesis-related genes, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, sterol regulatory element binding protein 1C, and fatty acid synthase in HFD mice. Conversely, mRNA levels of beta oxidation-related genes, such as carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A and acyl CoA oxidase, returned to control levels with leucrose supplementation. Taken together, these results demonstrated the therapeutic potential of leucrose to prevent metabolic abnormalities by mediating regulation of plasma glucose level and hepatic triglyceride accumulation.
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