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Ingested maple syrup evokes a possible liver-protecting effect-physiologic and genomic investigations with rats
Yuki Watanabe1, Asuka Kamei, Fumika Shinozaki
1Project on Health and Anti-aging, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|December 8, 2011
Abstract:
Rats fed a 20%-maple syrup diet (maple syrup group) for 11 d showed significantly lower values of the hepatic function markers than those fed a 20%-sugar mix syrup diet (control). The reason was suggested by a DNA microarray analysis which revealed that the expression of genes for the enzymes of ammonia formation were down-regulated in the liver of the maple syrup group.
