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SUBMITTER: Baek SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3902431 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baek So-Hyeon SH Chung Hea-Jong HJ Lee Heui-Kwan HK D'Souza Roshan R Jeon Youngju Y Kim Hyeon-Jin HJ Kweon Soon-Jong SJ Hong Seong-Tshool ST
Scientific reports 20140127
Obesity is the most prevalent disease in the world which poses a serious risk for various chronic diseases. However, currently there are not any therapeutic agents that reduce body weight without causing serious side effects. In order to prevent and/or treat obesity and related diseases through a nutraceutical approach, we created a resveratrol-enriched transgenic rice accumulating 1.4 μg/g of resveratrol in its grain, DJ-526. Feeding of mice with the resveratrol-enriched rice DJ-526 showed exce ...[more]