Atividade anti-inflamatória e antioxidante de flavonoides cítricos em camundongos submetidos a dieta indutora do estado pró-inflamatório

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Paula Souza [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113840
• topic: Obesidade; Hesperidina; Inflamação; Stress oxidativo; Oxidative stress

Oxidative stress and inflammation in obesity are associated with the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases. The ingestion of diets rich in saturated fatty acids and sugar, but deficient in antioxidants, contributes to adipose tissue accumulation and may lead to increased inflammatory markers in the blood and tissues. Citrus flavonoids have biological properties capable of attenuating oxidative stress and inflammation, protecting against metabolic disorders resulting from obesity and adipose tissue excess. In the present work we assessed the effect of hesperidin, eriocitrin and eriodictyol over inflammation, oxidative stress and the changes resulting from these process in the blood serum, liver, heart and spleen of mice fed a high-fat diet, which contained 45% of calories from fat, for a period of four weeks. Hesperidin, eriocitrin and eriodictyol supplementation efficiently inhibited the increase of serum IL-6, MCP-1 and C-reactive protein, and also the TBARS levels of the liver, caused by high-fat diet ingestion and excessive visceral fat, thus preventing the increase in spleen weight and increasing serum total antioxidant capacity. Eriocitrin and eriodictyol also reduced TBARS levels in the blood serum, while liver fat accumulation and damage were reduced by hesperidin and eriocitrin, and heart weight by hesperidin and eriodictyol. These results show that hesperidin, eriocitrin and eriodictiol have protective effect against inflammation and oxidative stress caused by high-fat diet feeding and visceral obesity, as indicated by reduced liver damage and fat accumulation, and reduced heart and spleen weight, making them good candidates for use in such conditions, in which they could possibly help to prevent cardiovascular diseases ...