Daily Feeding of Fructooligosaccharide or Glucomannan Delays Onset of Senescence in SAMP8 Mice

Table 2

Relative weight of whole brain, right hemisphere, left hemisphere, colon, organs, and adipose tissues in SAMP8 at 38 weeks after feeding.

	R1; (n = 5)	CONT; (n = 7)	FOS; (n = 8)	GM; (n = 9)
Whole brain	1.22 ± 0.13	1.24 ± 0.23	1.24 ± 0.13	1.29 ± 0.12
Right hemisphere	0.24 ± 0.03	0.29 ± 0.10	0.29 ± 0.07	0.32 ± 0.06
Left hemisphere	0.24 ± 0.01	0.31 ± 0.10	0.31 ± 0.09	0.33 ± 0.07
Liver	5.92 ± 0.98	7.70 ± 2.19	5.61 ± 0.79	7.54 ± 3.20
Heart	0.41 ± 0.04^a	0.45 ± 0.05	0.45 ± 0.03	0.50 ± 0.07^a
Spleen	0.24 ± 0.06	0.26 ± 0.05	0.32 ± 0.18	0.33 ± 0.12
Lungs	0.47 ± 0.05^b,c	0.57 ± 0.13	0.61 ± 0.09^b	0.65 ± 0.08^c
Colon	0.11 ± 0.01^d,e	0.16 ± 0.07	0.28 ± 0.05^d	0.35 ± 0.08^e
Kidneys	1.47 ± 0.15	1.48 ± 0.47	1.30 ± 0.08	1.73 ± 0.31
Epididymal adipose tissue	4.06 ± 1.53^f,g,h	1.44 ± 1.01^f	2.43 ± 0.90^g	1.28 ± 0.89^h
Perirenal adipose tissue	1.77 ± 0.48	1.69 ± 1.05	1.88 ± 0.44	1.17 ± 0.98

Unit: g/100 g of body weight. Values were expressed as mean ± SD. R1, SAMR1, and control diet; CONT, control diet; FOS, fructooligosaccharide diet; GM, glucomannan diet. ^a–hThere were significant differences between same letters, at P < 0.05 by Tukey’s post hoc test.