Effect of Rice Bran Phenolic Extracts on Abnormal Glucose Metabolism and Oxidative Stress Induced by High-fat Diet in Mice
Objective:This study was conducted to investigate the effects of rice bran phenolic extracts(RBPE)supple-mentation on glucose metabolism and oxidative stress in high-fat diet induced mice,which could provide theoretical basis for revealing the effect of rice bran on glucose metabolism.Methods:After 1 week of acclimatization,mice were ran-domly divided into 4 groups:normal control group,high-fat diet group,low-dose RBPE group(200 mg/kg,HF+LP group)and high-dose RBPE group(400 mg/kg,HF+HP group).The experiment lasted for 16 weeks.The organ-body ratio,epididymal fat morphology,fasting serum glucose level,oral glucose tolerance and the levels of oxidative stress were measured.Results:RBPE dose-dependently decreased the organ-body ratio,fasting blood glucose and ameliorated the impaired glucose tolerance induced by high-fat diet.Compared with the high-fat diet group,organ-body ratio of the liver of HF+LP and HF+HP groups were decreased by 15.75%and 39.61%,respectively,the organ-body ratio of epi-didymal adipose tissue decreased by 23.03%and 39.83%,respectively,the organ-body ratio of renal peritoneal adipose tissue decreased by 43.68%and 56.83%,respectively,fasting blood glucose levels decreased by 14.06%and 20.21%,and the area under the glucose tolerance curve decreased by 19.06%and 23.81%,respectively.Further studies showed that low and high doses of RBPE can significantly reduce serum and liver tissue MDA content and increase SOD activity in high-fat diet induced mice.Compared with the high-fat diet group mice,serum and liver MDA content in HF+HP group mice were decreased by 48.93%and 38.68%,respectively,SOD activity increased by 80.44%and 67.05%,re-spectively;RBPE treatment could also increase antioxidant enzyme activities such as catalase(CAT)and glutathione per-oxidase(GSH-px)and the content of antioxidant glutathione(GSH)in liver tissue of high-fat diet induced mice(P<0.05).Compared with the high-fat diet group mice,CAT,GSH-px activity and GSH content in HF+HP group mice were increased by 48.49%,31.67%and 123.90%,respectively.Conclusion:RBPE could alleviate the impaired glucose metabolism induced by high-fat diet,which might be related to its inhibition effect on oxidative stress.