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FITOTERAPIA
Volume 82, Issue 8, Pages 1272-1278Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2011.08.018
Keywords
Kaempferia parviflora; Polymethoxyflavonoid; Anti-obesity; Ethyl acetate extract; TSOD; Pancreatic lipase
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [21790634]
- Yamazaki Spice Promotion Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21790634] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Previously, we reported that rhizome powder of Kaempferia parviflora Wall. Ex. Baker prevented obesity and a range of metabolic diseases. In this study, to clarify which molecular mechanisms and active ingredients of K. parviflora have an anti-obesity effect, we investigated the effect of ethyl acetate extract of K. parviflora (KPE) on TSOD mice, a spontaneously obese Type II diabetes model, and on pancreatic lipase. In the TSOD groups, KPE showed a suppressive effect on body weight increase and visceral fat accumulation and also showed preventive effects on symptoms related to insulin resistance, hypertension and fatty liver. In addition, KPE also suppressed body weight increase and food intake in TSNO mice groups, which served as reference animals, at an early stage of administration. Searching for the ingredients in KPE revealed that KPE contains at least 12 kinds of polymethoxyflavonoid (PMF). Furthermore, KPE and its component PMFs showed an inhibitory effect on pancreatic lipase. The above results suggest that KPE has a preventive effect on obesity and various metabolic diseases. The mechanisms of action probably involve inhibition of pancreatic lipase by the PMFs in KPE. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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