title: Effects of dietary fibers on weight gain, carbohydrate metabolism, and gastric ghrelin gene expression in mice fed a high-fat diet.
abstract: Diets that are high in dietary fiber are reported to have substantial health benefits. We sought to compare the metabolic effects of 3 types of dietary fibers -- sugarcane fiber (SCF), psyllium (PSY), and cellulose (CEL) -- on body weight, carbohydrate metabolism, and stomach ghrelin gene expression in a high-fat diet-fed mouse model. Thirty-six male mice (C57BL/6) were randomly divided into 4 groups that consumed high-fat diet alone (HFD) or high-fat diet containing 10% SCF, PSY, and CEL, respectively. After baseline measurements were assessed for body weight, plasma insulin, glucose, leptin, and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), animals were treated for 12 weeks. Parameters were reevaluated at the end of study. Whereas there was no difference at the baseline, body weight gains in the PSY and SCF groups were significantly lower than in the CEL group at the end of study. No difference in body weight was observed between the PSY and SCF animals. Body composition analysis demonstrated that fat mass in the SCF group was considerably lower than in the CEL and HFD groups. In addition, fasting plasma glucose and insulin and areas under the curve of intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test were also significantly lower in the SCF and PSY groups than in the CEL and HFD groups. Moreover, fasting plasma concentrations of leptin were significantly lower and GLP-1 level was 2-fold higher in the SCF and PSY mice than in the HFD and CEL mice. Ghrelin messenger RNA levels of stomach in the SCF group were significantly lower than in the CEL and HFD groups as well. These results suggest differences in response to dietary fiber intake in this animal model because high-fat diets incorporating dietary fibers such as SCF and PSY appeared to attenuate weight gain, enhance insulin sensitivity, and modulate leptin and GLP-1 secretion and gastric ghrelin gene expression.
authors.affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Division of Nutrition and Chronic Diseases, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA. wangzq@pbrc.edu
authors.forename: Zhong Q
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Aamir R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Zuberi
authors.forename: Xian H
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jacalyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macgowan
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: Qinglin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.forename: William T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Cefalu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000378:metabolism; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D054439:Ghrelin / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D052216:Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 / Q000097:blood; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D020738:Leptin / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D011897:Random Allocation; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D013270:Stomach / Q000502:physiology*; D015430:Weight Gain / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D004041:Dietary Fats; D004043:Dietary Fiber; D054439:Ghrelin; D007328:Insulin; D020738:Leptin; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D052216:Glucagon-Like Peptide 1