Suppressed fat accumulation in rats fed a histidine-enriched diet

Abstract

The effect on body fat accumulation on male Wistar rats undergoing continuous feeding with a histidine- enriched diet was investigated. Five-week-age rats were assigned to two groups and were fed either the control diet (purified diet AIN-76TM) or the histidine-enriched diet containing 3% histidine for 28 days. It was observed that both adipose tissue masses in retroperitoneal and epididymal areas of rats fed histidine-enriched diet significantly decreased (p<0.05) compared to those of control rats, while there was no significant difference in the food efficiency ratio between them. The blood levels of histidine derivatives of 3-methylhistidine and carnosine were significantly (p<0.05) increased in the rats fed a histidine-enriched diet, whereas there were no significant different between the histidine-enriched diet and control groups in the general amino acid distribution. Our results demonstrate that a histidine-enriched diet suppresses body fat accumulation in rats. ? 2007 KFN.All right reserved.