期刊
MOLECULES
卷 17, 期 5, 页码 5854-5869出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules17055854
关键词
adrenergic signaling; respiration; glycogenolysis; glycolysis; weight loss
资金
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Fundacao Araucaria
The fruit extracts of Citrus aurantium (bitter orange) are traditionally used as weight-loss products and as appetite supressants. An important fruit component is p-synephrine, which is structurally similar to the adrenergic agents. Weight-loss and adrenergic actions are always related to metabolic changes and this work was designed to investigate a possible action of the C. aurantium extract on liver metabolism. The isolated perfused rat liver was used to measure catabolic and anabolic pathways, including oxygen uptake and perfusion pressure. The C. aurantium extract and p-synephrine increased glycogenolysis, glycolysis, oxygen uptake and perfusion pressure. These changes were partly sensitive to alpha- and beta-adrenergic antagonists. p-Synephrine (200 mu M) produced an increase in glucose output that was only 15% smaller than the increment caused by the extract containing 196 mu M p-synephrine. At low concentrations the C. aurantium extract tended to increase gluconeogenesis, but at high concentrations it was inhibitory, opposite to what happened with p-synephrine. The action of the C. aurantium extract on liver metabolism is similar to the well known actions of adrenergic agents and can be partly attributed to its content in p-synephrine. Many of these actions are catabolic and compatible with the weight-loss effects usually attributed to C. aurantium.
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