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

Table 3

Effects of the LE on body weight, food efficiency ratio, and fat-pad weights in HD-induced obese rats.

Group	ND	HD	HD + tea	HD + LE100	HD + LE200	HD + LE400
Initial body weight (g)	453.33±30.95	553.25±35.12^###	553.00±41.79	553.20±38.40	553.20±41.32	553.20±33.80
Final body weight (g)	560.40±16.94	729.13±77.27^###	631.13±42.13 **	692.20±24.53	665.60±34.88 *	634.00±16.18 *
Body weight gain (g)	106.00±19.89	175.88±83.91^#	93.29±41.32 **	139.00±42.34	112.40±27.26 **	93.50±24.38 ***
Food intake (g/rat/day)	27.02±1.88	19.88±1.24^###	16.60±1.66 *	17.88±1.78	17.57±1.56	17.06±0.99 *
FER (%)	9.55±1.54	17.48±3.82^#	11.50±1.83 *	15.02±2.99	14.76±3.97	10.71±2.85 *
Whole fat (g)	32.61±1.77	76.79±5.17	59.73±4.17	71.94±3.26	66.38±2.99	60.13±2.77
Abdominal (g)	14.73±3.44	39.35±8.37^###	29.88±4.74	36.48±2.64	33.59±3.94	31.45±4.38
Epididymal (g)	10.94±2.39	23.39±7.15^#	19.72±9.13	22.06±6.06	21.74±4.27	19.15±4.08
Visceral (g)	6.50±1.18	13.39±5.09^#	9.54±2.80	12.86±4.24	10.51±3.71	8.99±2.56
Brown (g)	0.44±0.08	0.67±0.09^###	0.59±0.02	0.55±0.08	0.54±0.05	0.54±0.06

Data are mean ± SD values (𝑛≥8). ^#𝑃<.05, ^###𝑃<.001 versus the ND group; *𝑃<.05, **𝑃<.01, ***𝑃<.001 versus HD groups. FER: food efficiency ratio.