Fig. 9.

Effect of ginger extract on the expression of genes involved in lipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells. The expression of (a) Fas, (b) Acc, and (c) Pepck1 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 test were performed using the SPSS Statistics 20 software to determine differences among group means. Within groups statistically 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.