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. 2023 Dec 8;14:8142. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43672-7

Fig. 6. Isofalcarintriol improves glucose metabolism in obese mice and acts as exercise mimetic though increased mitochondrial biogenesis.

Fig. 6

a Schematic overview of isofalcarintriol (1a) supplementation study with C57BL/6NRj mice on high-fat diet. b Glucose tolerance test with male mice (DMSO: n = 12 mice; IFT: n = 15 mice) (15 min: p = 0.01). c Fasted blood glucose level in male mice (DMSO: n = 12 mice; IFT: n = 15 mice) upon isofalcarintriol (1a) supplementation after 16 weeks (p = 0.0022). d Glucose tolerance test with female mice (n = 14 mice per treatment) after 9 weeks of treatment (120 min: p = 0.02). e Fasted blood glucose level in female mice (DMSO: n = 14 mice; IFT: n = 13 mice) upon isofalcarintriol (1a) supplementation (p = 0.0048). f–i Mitochondrial mass (mtDNA/nDNA ratio) after supplementation of isofalcarintriol (1a) in (f) HepG2 cells (DMSO: n = 6; IFT: n = 3 independent cell samples) (p = 0.0014). g C. elegans (n = 3 biologically independent samples per condition) (10 nM: p = 0.0238), and (h) male (n = 9 mice per treatment) and (i) female (n = 8 mice per treatment) high-fat diet mouse muscle tissue (M. gastrocnemius) (p = 0.0222). j Thrashing assay quantifying motility of C. elegans on day 5 of adulthood (DMSO: n = 221; IFT = 248 nematodes in two independent experiments) (p = 0.0134). Treadmill exercise with C57BL/6NRj (k) male (DMSO: n = 10; IFT: n = 9 mice) (p = 0.07) and (l) female mice (DMSO: n = 8; IFT: n = 9 mice) (p = 0.0318) on high-fat diet. All data are represented as average + SD or ± SD. Statistics: two-sided unpaired student’s t-test; two-way repeated measures ANOVA; one-way ANOVA and Dunnett’s post-hoc test. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.