Fig. 8.

Effect of ginger extract on the expression of genes involved in adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells during adipocyte differentiation. The expression of (a) C/ebpβ, (b) C/ebpδ, (c) Pparγ, and (d) adiponectin in 3T3-L1 adipocytes was examined using qRT-PCR using primers reported in Table 1. 3T3-L1 cells were stimulated to differentiation for 5 days as described in the text in the presence of different ginger extract concentrations: 0, 25, and 50 μg/mL. The results represent mean ± SE (n = 3). One-way ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD post hoc tests were performed using the SPSS Statistics 20 software to determine differences among group means. Within groups statistical significant differences were represented by different letters, indicating that groups are significantly different at P < 0.05. Treatments with the same letter are not significantly different from each other.