Antiobesity Effects of the Ethanol Extract of Laminaria japonica Areshoung in High-Fat-Diet-Induced Obese Rat

Figure 1

HPLC chromatograms at 410 nm of fucoxanthin standard (a) and ethanol extract of L. japonica (b). The main peak (retention time = 60 min) of the ethanol extract of L. japonica at 410 nm was observed at the same position as that of the fucoxanthin standard. Main peak of the extract was identified as fucoxanthin.