Parameter
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ND
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HFD
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HFD + TILE100
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HFD + TILE200
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HFD + TILE400
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Food intake (g/day)
|
18.23 ± 2.51a
|
18.51 ± 3.11a
|
20.21 ± 2.42a
|
19.41 ± 2.92a
|
19.21 ± 2.67a
|
Percent weight gain
|
39.82 ± 4.25a
|
66.27 ± 5.42b
|
62.91 ± 7.38b
|
59.72 ± 5.32b
|
45.26 ± 4.53a
|
Liver weight (g/100 g body weight)
|
3.12 ± 0.43a
|
4.83 ± 0.63b
|
4.64 ± 0.54b
|
4.52 ± 0.57b
|
3.61 ± 0.61a
|
Epidedymal fat (g/100 g body weight)
|
1.13 ± 0.12a
|
1.81 ± 0.23b
|
1.72 ± 0.18b
|
1.64 ± 0.19b
|
1.61 ± 0.17b
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Mesenteric fat (g/100 g body weight)
|
0.73 ± 0.08a
|
1.17 ± 0.13b
|
1.02 ± 0.12b
|
0.97 ± 0.10a
|
0.84 ± 0.11a
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Peritoneal fat (g/100 g body weight)
|
0.87 ± 0.10a
|
1.26 ± 0.15b
|
1.22 ± 0.11b
|
1.17 ± 0.13b
|
0.91 ± 0.12a
|
- Effects of Tamarindus indica L. leaf extract (TILE) on food intake, body weight gain, liver weight and adipose tissue weight in different group of Wistar rats fed with either of standard laboratory diet (SD), or high-fat diet (HFD), or HFD with TILE. TILE was given orally everyday throughout the study period either in low dose (HFD + TILE100), or intermediate dose (HFD + TILE200) or high dose (HFD + TILE400). Data was analyzed by one way ANOVA followed by Newman-Keuls’s post-hoc test and expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 6). Values with different superscript letters within the same row are significantly different at p < 0.05