Curcumin Supplementation Decreases Intestinal Adiposity Accumulation, Serum Cholesterol Alterations, and Oxidative Stress in Ovariectomized Rats

Table 1

Body weight gain, individual uterus, and visceral adipose tissue weight (g) in relation to respective animal body weight (g).

	Sham	OVX	Curcumin (mg/Kg/day)
			OVX 50	OVX 100
Weight gain (g)	22.62 ± 2.618	61.818 ± 3.60^d	59 ± 3.37^c	61.625 ± 2.77^d
Uterus (g)/body mass (g) ratio	1 ± 0.07	0.17 ± 0.01^d	0.18 ± 0.01^d	0.19 ± 0.02^d
Visceral adipose tissue (g)/body mass (g) ratio	1 ± 0.05	1.41 ± 0.1^c	0.99 ± 0.04^#	1.08 ± 0.09

Fresh uterine and visceral adipose tissues weight from Sham and OVX rats. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (sham , OVX , OVX50 , and OVX100 ).
^c < 0.01: different from sham group; ^d < 0.001: different from sham group; < 0.05: different from OVX group; ^# < 0.01: different from OVX group (one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test).
OVX: ovariectomized.