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The Effects of Elateriospermum tapos against Obese Maternal Rat in Mitigating Obesity Development among their Adult Female Offspring

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  1. 1Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
  2. 2Department of Diagnostic and Allied Health Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Management and Science University, Departments of, Malaysia.
  3. 3Nutrition and Dietetics, Malaysia.
  4. 4Pathology and, Malaysia.
  5. 5Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

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Hasnah Bahari

Department of Diagnostic and Allied Health Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Management and Science University, Departments of, Malaysia.

haba@upm.edu.my

Received: 17-04-2020; Revised: 29-05-2020; Accepted: 19-08-2020.

Volume 16, Issue 72 · pp. 706–712 · 2021 · DOI: 10.4103/pm.pm_142_20

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Objectives: This study was aim to investigate the effect of E. tapos supplementation in obese rat prior pregnancy on the female offspring’s body weight, liver and kidney profile, and histological changes of heart, liver, kidney, and retroperitoneal white adipose tissue (RpWAT).Materials and Methods: Thirty female Sprague Dawley rats were used in this study. Six rats were assigned to dams normal diet group fed with standard chow diet. The remaining rats were fed with high‑fat and cafeteria diet (HFCD) to generate obesity for 5 weeks. The obese rats were further divided into 4 groups; group1; Dams Negative Control (DNC, normal saline only), group 2; Dams Positive Control (DPC, Orlistat drug 200mg/kg), Dams Treatment 1 (DTX1, E. tapos seed 200 mg/ kg) and Dams Treatment 2 (DTX2, E. tapos shell 200mg/kg) extracts for 6 weeks daily prior to mating. The weaning offspring were then designated into 6 groups according to their dam’s group (n = 6/group). The offspring were culled at 12th week of age in order to have their blood sample and organs.Results: Adult offspring from DTX2 group showed a decrease in weight gain, alanine aminotransferase, and creatinine level compared to adult offspring from DNC. Histological examination showed that liver and RpWAT of offspring from DTX1 and DTX2 groups were comparable with normal diet group, indicating that the extracts were capable in reversing the high fat diet effect to the organ.Conclusion: E. tapos shell supplementation was effective in reducing the development of obesity with no harmful effect among adult female rat offspring.

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    Bahari, H., Abidin, A. Z., Balan, S. S., Perumal, K. V., Rosli, N. S., Lotafi, A. H. A., Danabala, S., Manimaran, M., Shafie, N. H., Abdullah, M. A., & Jasni, A. S. (2021). The Effects of Elateriospermum tapos against Obese Maternal Rat in Mitigating Obesity Development among their Adult Female Offspring. Pharmacognosy Magazine, 16(72), 706–712. https://doi.org/10.4103/pm.pm_142_20