PMID- 23712415 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140224 LR - 20171116 IS - 1097-0010 (Electronic) IS - 0022-5142 (Linking) VI - 93 IP - 13 DP - 2013 Oct TI - Short-term and long-term effects of excessive consumption of saturated fats and/or sucrose on metabolic variables in Sprague Dawley rats: a pilot study. PG - 3191-7 LID - 10.1002/jsfa.6240 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Feeding high-fat and/or high-sugar diets to rats leads to a change in markers of metabolic syndrome. However, types and amounts of fat and sugar as well as the length of the experiment for establishing diet-induced metabolic syndrome in the Sprague Dawley (SD) rat model remain uncertain. This study was designed to investigate the effects in SD rats of consuming excess lard, sucrose or a combination of lard and sucrose for a short (4 week) or long (8 week) period of time. RESULTS: Consumption of the high-fat high-sugar (HFHS) diet significantly increased weight gain and abdominal fat weights (P < 0.05), and the rats also began to develop signs of impaired glucose tolerance and had increased fasting blood lipids glucose and insulin concentrations. The high-fat (HF) diet mainly affected weight gain and fat deposition, whereas the high-sugar (HS) diet induced glucose intolerance but not the obesity-related parameters. Control rats showed a tendency towards insulin resistance and glucose intolerance when fed for a long-term period. CONCLUSION: The lard plus sucrose-based HFHS diet is the most efficient one for inducing signs of metabolic syndrome, and SD rats fed this diet for 8 weeks successfully develop obesity and insulin resistance, which can be used as a model for metabolic syndrome research. CI - (c) 2013 Society of Chemical Industry. FAU - Pranprawit, Araya AU - Pranprawit A AD - Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. FAU - Wolber, Frances M AU - Wolber FM FAU - Heyes, Julian A AU - Heyes JA FAU - Molan, Abdul L AU - Molan AL FAU - Kruger, Marlena C AU - Kruger MC LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130704 PL - England TA - J Sci Food Agric JT - Journal of the science of food and agriculture JID - 0376334 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Dietary Fats) RN - 0 (Dietary Sucrose) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 0 (Lipids) RN - SI6O3IW77Z (lard) SB - IM MH - Abdominal Fat/pathology MH - Animals MH - Blood Glucose/analysis MH - Body Composition MH - Diet, High-Fat/*adverse effects MH - Dietary Fats MH - Dietary Sucrose/*administration & dosage/*adverse effects MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Glucose Intolerance/etiology MH - Insulin/blood MH - Insulin Resistance MH - Lipids/blood MH - Male MH - Metabolic Syndrome/*etiology/pathology MH - Obesity/etiology MH - Organ Size MH - Pilot Projects MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Time Factors MH - Weight Gain OTO - NOTNLM OT - diet OT - fat OT - metabolic syndrome OT - rat model OT - sugar EDAT- 2013/05/29 06:00 MHDA- 2014/02/25 06:00 CRDT- 2013/05/29 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/05/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/05/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/05/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/05/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/02/25 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/jsfa.6240 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Sci Food Agric. 2013 Oct;93(13):3191-7. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.6240. Epub 2013 Jul 4.