Research Article

Analysis of Therapeutic Effect of Ilex hainanensis Merr. Extract on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease through Urine Metabolite Profiling by Ultraperformance Liquid Chromatography/Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry

Table 1

Effects of TTE on blood biochemical characteristics.

Parameter4 w6 w
Normal groupNAFLD groupNormal groupNAFLD groupEIH-treated group

Body weight (g)279.43 ± 13.69299.33 ± 18.94*309.60 ± 9.79332.60 ± 25.27△△339.30 ± 21.74
Liver weight (g)8.56 ± 0.5312.78 ± 0.36**8.318 ± 0.66414.665 ± 1.98△△13.165 ± 1.201#
Liver/body weight (%)2.89 ± 0.214.53 ± 0.21**2.87 ± 0.284.82 ± 0.20△△3.41 ± 0.21#
TG (mg/dL)53.53 ± 8.58182.45 ± 57.65**59.53 ± 9.02285.75 ± 23.1252.13 ± 12.68#
TC (mg/dL)58.46 ± 9.44105.89 ± 12.69**53.182 ± 4.50692.65 ± 11.47△△55.755 ± 8.12##
LDL-c (mg/dL)7.430 ± 3.7520.06 ± 11.67**7.181 ± 2.5225.63 ± 5.767△△13.57 ± 7.49#
HDL-c (mg/dL)42.71 ± 7.1631.210 ± 7.27**42.305 ± 11.1021.31 ± 2.36△△30.79 ± 6.16#
ALT (U/L)3.57 ± 1.145.20 ± 2.10*4.65 ± 0.1337.12 ± 1.024△△6.67 ± 0.82#
AST (U/L)2.85 ± 1.256.78 ± 2.66**3.723 ± 0.2315.459 ± 1.026△△3.807 ± 0.45##
FBG (mmol/L)9.66 ± 1.259.07 ± 2.768.677 ± 0.21910.38 ± 2.248.874 ± 0.93

, ** , compared to normal group (4 w). , △△ , compared to normal group (6 w); # , ## , compared to NAFLD group (6 w).