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KMID : 0861020140290020023
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Korea Journal of Herbology
2014 Volume.29 No. 2 p.23 ~ p.31
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Massa Medicata Fermentata improves fatty liver in high fat diet-fed nonalcoholic fatty liver disease’s mouse model
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Roh Jong-Seong
Lee Hye-Rim
Ahn Ye-Ji
Yoon Mi-Jung
Shin Soon-Shik
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was undertaken to verify the effects of Massa Medicata Fermentata (MMF) on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) using high fat diet-fed male mice.
Methods : Fifty four male C57BL/6N mice (age matched) were used for all experiments. Nine standard chow diet-fed mice were used as normal group and forty five high fat diet-fed obese mice were randomly divided into 5 groups: control, atorvastatin-10㎎/㎏, MMF(1)-62.5㎎/㎏, MMF(2)-125㎎/㎏ and MMF(3)-250㎎/㎏. After all groups were treated with several kinds of diets for 8 weeks, we measured body weight gain, adipose tissue weights, plasma lipid and glucose metabolism, visceral organ weights, histological analysis for liver on the mice.
Results : MMF-treated mice had lower body weight gain compared with controls. Among MMF-treated mice, the effect was magnified in MMF(2). MMF(3)-treated mice had lower blood plasma total cholesterol (TC) and glucose level compared with controls. MMF decreased hepatic lipid accumulation, liver fibrosis and liver inflammation of mice compared with controls. The effects was maximized in MMF(2) and atorvastatin. Blood plasma aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), γ-glutamyltransferase (γ-GT) concentrations tends to be decreased by MMF compared with controls. Blood plasma AST, ALT, γ GT concentrations and organ weights were not changed by MMF, indicating that all three kinds of MMF do not show any hepatotoxicity.
Conclusions : These results suggest that MMF improves NAFLD by reducing body weight gain, hepatic lipid accumulation, liver fibrosis, liver inflammation.
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KEYWORD
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Massa Medicata Fermentata, NAFLD, liver fibrosis, total cholesterol
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