Taurine ameliorates hypercholesterolemia but not obesity in rats fed a lard-based, high-fat diet

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2015:803:271-8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15126-7_22.

Authors

Kyoung Soo Kim¹, Jeong Soon You, Jung Yeon Kim, Kyung Ja Chang, Myung Chul Yoo, Ran Song, Yeon-Ah Lee, Sang-Hoon Lee, Seung-Jae Hong, Hyung-In Yang

Affiliation

¹ East-West Bone and Joint Disease Research Institute, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, 149 Sangil-dong, Gandong-gu, Seoul, Korea, [email protected].

PMID: 25833504
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15126-7_22

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adipose Tissue / drug effects
Adipose Tissue / pathology
Animals
Body Weight / drug effects
Diet, High-Fat*
Dietary Fats
Hypercholesterolemia / blood
Hypercholesterolemia / drug therapy*
Hypercholesterolemia / etiology
Lipids / blood
Male
Obesity / blood
Obesity / drug therapy*
Obesity / etiology
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Taurine / therapeutic use*

Substances

Dietary Fats
Lipids
Taurine
lard