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A cocktail of histidine, carnosine, cysteine and serine reduces adiposity and improves metabolic health and adipose tissue immunometabolic function in ovariectomized rats
Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Technological Unit of Nutrition and Health, Reus 43204, Spain; Nutrigenomics Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona 43007, Spain.
Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Technological Unit of Nutrition and Health, Reus 43204, Spain; Laboratory of Metabolism and Obesity, Vall d′Hebron-Institut de Recerca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain..
Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Technological Unit of Nutrition and Health, Reus 43204, Spain.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Systems Biology. KTH, Centres, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab.ORCID iD: 0009-0002-0414-2471
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2024 (English)In: Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, ISSN 0753-3322, E-ISSN 1950-6007, Vol. 179, article id 117326Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Many women have sought alternative therapies to address menopause. Recently, a multi-ingredient supplement (MIS) containing L-histidine, L-carnosine, L-serine, and L-cysteine has been shown to be effective at ameliorating hepatic steatosis (HS) in ovariectomized (OVX) rats, a postmenopausal oestrogen deficiency model. Considering that HS frequently accompanies obesity, which often occurs during menopause, we aimed to investigate the effects of this MIS for 8 weeks in OVX rats. Twenty OVX rats were orally supplemented with either MIS (OVX-MIS) or vehicle (OVX). Ten OVX rats received vehicle orally along with subcutaneous injections of 17β-oestradiol (OVX-E2), whereas 10 rats underwent a sham operation and received oral and injected vehicles (control group). MIS consumption partly counteracted the fat mass accretion observed in OVX animals, leading to decreased total fat mass, adiposity index and retroperitoneal white adipose tissue (RWAT) adipocyte hypertrophy. OVX-MIS rats also displayed increased lean mass and lean/fat ratio, suggesting a healthier body composition, similar to the results reported for OVX-E2 animals. MIS consumption decreased the circulating levels of the proinflammatory marker CRP, the total cholesterol-to-HDL-cholesterol ratio and the leptin-to-adiponectin ratio, a biomarker of diabetes risk and metabolic syndrome. RWAT transcriptomics indicated that MIS favourably regulated genes involved in adipocyte structure and morphology, cell fate determination and differentiation, glucose/insulin homeostasis, inflammation, response to stress and oxidative phosphorylation, which may be mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects described for OVX-MIS rats. Our results pave the way for using this MIS formulation to improve the body composition and immunometabolic health of menopausal women.

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Elsevier BV , 2024. Vol. 179, article id 117326
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Carnosine, Complementary and alternative therapies, Cysteine, Histidine, Immunometabolic health, Menopause, Nutraceuticals, Obesity, Serine
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Endocrinology and Diabetes Pharmacology and Toxicology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-353463DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117326ISI: 001311839600001PubMedID: 39208671Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85202697905OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-353463DiVA, id: diva2:1899138
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