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KMID : 1161420130160010002
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Journal of Medicinal Food
2013 Volume.16 No. 1 p.2 ~ p.8
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Combined Treatment of Betulinic Acid, a PTP1B Inhibitor, with Orthosiphon stamineus Extract Decreases Body Weight in High-Fat?Fed Mice
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Choi Yoon-Jung
Park So-Young
Kim Jong-Yeon
Won Kyu-Chang
Kim Bo-Ra
Son Jong-Keun
Lee Seung-Ho
Kim Yong-Woon
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Abstract
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Leptin resistance is a common feature of obesity and is accompanied by hyperleptinemia. Although leptin sensitizers improve leptin resistance, they also decrease plasma leptin levels that attenuate the leptin-associated antiobesity effect. We hypothesized that the combinational treatment of leptin sensitizer and endogenous leptin expression stimulant would synergistically induce an antiobesity effect in high-fat?fed obese animals. Betulinic acid (BA) isolated from Saussurea lappa suppressed the hypothalamic protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B in mice and enhanced the antiobesity effect of leptin in obese rats. Ethanol extract of Orthosiphon stamineus (OS) induced leptin expressions in both 3T3-L1 adipocytes and mice in a dose-dependent manner. To evaluate our hypothesis, we treated obese mice induced by 6 weeks of high-fat-diet feeding with BA and OS for 2 weeks. Although BA or OS alone did not decrease body weight in obese mice, the combinational treatment of BA and OS decreased body weight significantly compared to either BA- or OS-treated obese mice. These results suggest that combinational treatment of BA and OS would be effective for the treatment of obesity.
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KEYWORD
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betulinic acid, leptin resistance, obesity, Orthosiphon stamineus
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