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SUBMITTER: Kim KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799707 | biostudies-other | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kim Kyung Eun KE Ko Keon-Hee KH Heo Rok Won RW Yi Chin-ok CO Shin Hyun Joo HJ Kim Jun Young JY Park Jae-Ho JH Nam Sanghae S Kim Hwajin H Roh Gu Seob GS
Journal of medicinal food 20160107 3
Artemisia annua L. (AA) is a well-known source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin. AA also has an antibacterial and antioxidant activity. However, the effect of AA extract on hepatic steatosis induced by obesity is unclear. We investigated whether AA extract prevents obesity-induced insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice. Mice were randomly divided into groups that received a normal chow diet or HFD with or without AA for 12 weeks. We found that AA extract red ...[more]