Figure 5.

Effect of brown algae Undaria pinnatifida and fucoxanthin on cytokine mRNA expression in retroperitoneal adipose tissue (rWAT) and liver. Quantitative real-time PCR assays of the genes encoding (A,B) adiponectin (C) leptin and (D) IL-6. Values are expressed as the-fold change compared with SD group that was arbitrarily set to 1. The groups are abbreviated as: standard diet (SD); high-fat diet (HF); HF + Undaria pinnatifida (UP); HF + Fucoxanthin (FU). Values are shown as mean ± SE, (n = 6 per group). Data was compared by one-way ANOVA with Holm-Sidak test for multiple comparisons. Means with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).