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. 2019 Dec 11;19:364. doi: 10.1186/s12906-019-2756-5

Table 5.

Effect of purpurin on white adipose tissue (WAT) weight, morphometry, and triglyceride contents

SD HFD HFD 40 HFD 80
WAT weight (g) 0.40 ± 0.07c 2.03 ± 0.21a 2.00 ± 0.54a 1.41 ± 0.46b
Triglyceride (mg/WAT) 5.17 ± 0.21d 54.3 ± 1.0a 47.9 ± 1.2b 25.34 ± 0.28c
Diameter of adipose cells (μm) 247 ± 47d 654 ± 17a 528 ± 35b 364 ± 36c

Data are expressed as the mean ± SD of 10 mice experiments. Values sharing a common letter are not significantly different at p < 0.05