Antioxidant Activity of Sprouts Extracts Is Correlated with Their Anti-Obesity and Anti-Inflammatory Effects in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice

Table 4

Correlations between parameters measured in mice.

	Body weight gain		Adipocyte size
	r^1)	Significance	r^1)	Significance
Adipocyte size	0.8110		1
Plasma
MDA^2)	0.3692		0.1406	ns
8-epi-PGF2α^3)	0.4358		0.6477
Leptin	0.7263		0.7599
Triglyceride	0.3767		0.2269	ns
T. cholesterol	0.4913		0.7076
Adipose tissue
Epididymal fat	0.8472		0.8876
Adipocyte size	0.8110		1
mRNA
Leptin	0.8732		0.7517
Adiponectin	0.3160	ns	−0.3531	ns
HO-1^4)	0.7798		0.5650
p40phox^5)	0.7412		0.4631
GSTA4^6)	0.3612		−0.4899
TNF-α^7)	0.7324		0.5163
MCP-1^8)	0.5272		0.3541	ns
CD11c^9)	0.8265		0.7431
IL-6^10)	0.4174		0.3214	ns
Liver
TBARS^11)	0.4019		0.3395	ns
Activity
Catalase	−0.3823		−0.5647
SOD-1^12)	−0.2011	ns	−0.3858
GST	−0.3115		−0.5384
mRNA
IL-6	0.5208		0.3566	ns
TNF-α	0.3407		0.3078	ns

(1) Pearson correlation coefficient, (2) malondialdehyde, (3) 8-epi-prostaglandin F₂α, (4) heme oxygenase-1, (5) subunit of NADPH oxidase, (6) glutathione S-transferase A4, (7) tumor necrosis factor, (8) macrophage attractant protein-1, (9) a surface marker of M1 type of macrophages, (10) interleukin-6, (11) thiobarbituric acid-reactive substance, (12) superoxide dismutase-1, significant at , , or as determined by Pearson correlation test, ns: not significant.