Preventive obesity agent montmorillonite adsorbs dietary lipids and enhances lipid excretion from the digestive tract.

ABSTRACT: Western diets are typically high in fat and are associated with long-term complications such as obesity and hepatic steatosis. Because of the enjoyable taste of high-fat diets (HFDs), we are interested in determining how to decrease lipid absorption and enhance lipid excretion from the digestive tract after the consumption of eating fatty foods. Montmorillonite was initially characterized as a gastrointestinal mucosal barrier protective agent for the treatment of diarrhoea. Dietary lipid adsorbent- montmorillonite (DLA-M) was isolated and purified from Xinjiang montmorillonite clay via the water extraction method. Here, we show that DLA-M has an unexpected role in preventing obesity, hyperlipidaemia and hepatic steatosis in HFD-fed rats. Interestingly, combined application of polarized lig

SUBMITTER: Xu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4759552 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature