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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 715, Issue 1-3, Pages 46-55Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2013.06.022
Keywords
D-limonene; Metabolic disorder; Dyslipidemia; Hyperglycemia
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31171930]
- Graduate Student Innovation Fund of Southwest University [kb2011005]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2013A014]
- 111 Project [B12006]
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D-limonene is a major constituent in citrus essential oil, which is used in various foods as a flavoring agent. Recently, D-limonene has been reported to alleviate fatty liver induced by a high-fat diet. Here we determined the preventive and therapeutic effects of D-limonene on metabolic disorders in mice with high-fat diet-induced obesity. In the preventive treatment, D-limonene decreased the size of white and brown adipocytes, lowered serum triglyceride (TG) and fasting blood glucose levels, and prevented liver lipid accumulations in high-fat diet-fed C5713L/6 mice. In the therapeutic treatment, D-limonene reduced serum TG, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) and fasting blood glucose levels and glucose tolerance, and increased serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) in obese mice. Using a reporter assay and gene expression analysis, we found that D-limonene activated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-alpha signaling, and inhibited liver X receptor (LXR)-beta signaling. Our data suggest that the intake of D-limonene may benefit patients with dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia and is a potential dietaiy supplement for preventing and ameliorating metabolic disorders. (C) 2013 Elsevier RN. All rights reserved,
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