Mechanism of Body Weight Reducing Effect of Oral Boric Acid Intake

Table 1

The mean gene expression levels normalized against 18sRNA ± SE expression for each UCP proteins in WAT, BAT, and SMT.

	Boric acid group	Control group	P value
UCP1 mRNA in WAT	0.00000017±0.00000004	0.00000015±0.00000008	0.6905
UCP2 mRNA in WAT	0.00000527±0.00000420	0.00000019±0.00000006	0.0317
UCP3 mRNA in WAT	0.00000013±0.00000007	0.00000012±0.00000006	0.9452
UCP1 mRNA in BAT	0.00025809±0.00011527	0.00002859±0.00001483	0.026
UCP2 mRNA in BAT	0.00123186±0.00067987	0.00011691 ± 0.00006580	0.014
UCP3 mRNA in BAT	0.00002918±0.00000762	0.00001676±0.00000534	0.2949
UCP1 mRNA in SMT	0.00000071±0.00000022	0.00000084±0.00000063	0.366
UCP2 mRNA in SMT	0.00002884±0.00000967	0.00000645±0.00000198	0.0159
UCP3 mRNA in SMT	0.00011747±0.00005621	0.00009499±0.00003876	0.7308