Obesity is associated with many diseases, particularly diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis,
and heart disease. The obesity incidence has increased at an alarming rate in recent years …

Recent technological advances have created great interest in the use of biologically active
peptides. Bioactive peptides can be defined as specific portions of proteins with 2 to 20 …

The quality and value of the carcass in domestic meat animals are reflected in its protein and
fat content. Preadipocytes and adipocytes are important in establishing the overall fatness of …

Objective: This study is to evaluate the anti-obese effects of glucosamine (GLC) and
chitosan oligosaccharide (COS) on high-fat diet-induced obese rats. Methods: The rats were …

Adipose tissue plays a key role as a fat-storage depot and as an endocrine organ. Although
mouse adipogenesis has been studied extensively, limited studies have been conducted to …

Background Obesity has become a worldwide burden to public health in recent decades.
Given that obesity is caused by an imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure, and …

Chitosan is one of the most abundant marine-based biopolymers. Low molecular weight and
oligomeric chitosans are water-soluble hydrolysates of chitosan. They have been shown to …

Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of metabolic disorders including central obesity, insulin
resistance, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, has become a major public …

Altered levels of adipokines, derived as a result of distorted adipocytes, are the major factors
responsible for changing biochemical parameters in obesity that leads to the development of …

Polyphyllin D (PD) is a potent cytotoxic saponin found in Paris polyphylla. In the present
study, bioinformatic, proteomic and transcriptomic analyses were performed to study the …