In rats with metabolic syndrome, l‑carnosine significantly reduced abdominal obesity compared with the same diet without l‑carnosine.
In plain wordsIn rats with metabolic syndrome, l‑carnosine reduced abdominal obesity compared with the same diet without l‑carnosine.
- Peptide
- L-carnosine
- Outcome
- DecreaseAbdominal obesity
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Male Wistar rats with high-fat high-carbohydrate diet-induced metabolic syndrome- Comparator
- High-fat high-carbohydrate diet without l-carnosine
- Outcome group
- Body weight · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 16 weeksAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
l-Carnosine supplementation to MetS rats significantly reduced abdominal obesity, blood pressure and glucose, and normalized total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (P < 0.05).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to receive either; conventional diet (control), high-fat high-carbohydrate diet (HFHCD), l-carnosine and conventional diet (L-Car), or l-carnosine and high-fat high-carbohydrate diet (HFHCD and L-Car) for 16 weeks.