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Fiber-Free White Flour With Fructose Offers A Better Model Of Metabolic Syndrome, Faridah Amin, Anwar Hassan Gilani
Fiber-Free White Flour With Fructose Offers A Better Model Of Metabolic Syndrome, Faridah Amin, Anwar Hassan Gilani
Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
BACKGROUND: The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of metabolic abnormalities that lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. Due to its rising incidence and demanding life-long use of multiple drugs, there is a growing interest in testing and developing new allopathic, complementary and alternative therapies for controlling or curing disorders of MS. The discovery of new therapeutic modalities requires animal models of disease and currently available models have limitations. Developing an appropriate animal model for MS to achieve various therapeutic targets remains a challenge and this study aims to develop a rat model which closely depicts MS in …