Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 4 Effect of SCLE on liver lipid metabolism related enzymes activity in liver (IU/mg protein)

From: Dietary supplement of Smilax china L. ethanol extract alleviates the lipid accumulation by activating AMPK pathways in high-fat diet fed mice

	FAS	CAT	ACO	AMPK
Control	0.20 ± 0.01^a	0.87 ± 0.05^a	0.62 ± 0.02^c	0.28 ± 0.01^ab
HFD	0.19 ± 0.01^a	0.70 ± 0.04^b	1.02 ± 0.03^b	0.25 ± 0.01^b
HFD + 0.25% SCLE	0.19 ± 0.01^a	0.72 ± 0.02^ab	0.96 ± 0.07^b	0.30 ± 0.01^ab
HFD + 0.5% SCLE	0.16 ± 0.01^a	0.82 ± 0.06^ab	1.07 ± 0.05^b	0.32 ± 0.03^a
HFD + 1.0% SCLE	0.18 ± 0.01^a	0.89 ± 0.05^a	1.43 ± 0.02^a	0.33 ± 0.02^a

Values are means ± SEM of 10 mice. Means within the same column but not sharing the same superscript letter are significantly different (P < 0.05)
ACC: acetyl-CoA carboxylase; FAS: fatty acid synthase; CAT: carnitine acyltransferase; ACO: acyl-CoA oxidase; AMPK: AMP-activated protein kinase

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