Liquid Fructose In Western Diet-Fed Mice Impairs Liver Insulin Signaling And Causes Cholesterol And Triglyceride Loading Without Changing Calorie Intake And Body Weight

Liquid-fructose associates with prevalence of T2DM and obesity. Intervention studies suggest that metabolically unfit individuals are more responsive than healthy individuals to liquid-fructose. We determined whether mice consuming an obesogenic Western-diet were more responsive than chow-fed mice to the alterations induced by liquid fructose-supplementation (LFS).

Source: The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry - November 1, 2016 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Miguel Baena, Gemma Sang üesa, Natalia Hutter, José María Beltrán, Rosa María Sánchez, Núria Roglans, Marta Alegret, Juan Carlos Laguna Source Type: research