Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice
Obesity has emerged as a global health issue with its prevalence continuously increasing and being associated with multiple comorbidities. Although existing medications are effective, they often come with significant side effects, making dietary therapy an advantageous alternative. Hawthorn leaves a...
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| author | Ziqi Liu Tianrui Gao Haoyu Chang Yuqing Xu Letao Wang Xiangyi Wang Jiayin Lang Yingxing Yu Ying Xiao Ye Peng |
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| description | Obesity has emerged as a global health issue with its prevalence continuously increasing and being associated with multiple comorbidities. Although existing medications are effective, they often come with significant side effects, making dietary therapy an advantageous alternative. Hawthorn leaves and their active component, vitexin, have shown potential in regulating lipid metabolism and improving gut microbiota imbalance. This study utilized a high-fat diet-induced obese mouse model, administering different doses of hawthorn leaves and vitexin for 13 weeks, and employed 16S rRNA sequencing and metabolomics to analyze the composition of gut microbiota and metabolites. The results demonstrated that hawthorn leaves and vitexin significantly slowed body weight gain, improved glucose tolerance, regulated blood lipid levels, and downregulated the expression of obesity-related gene in mice (ppar-α, ppar-γ, fas). Additionally, the treatment groups showed a significant improvement in gut microbiota diversity. Both vitexin and hawthorn leaves increased the abundance of Kineothrix, Paramuribaculum, Lawsonibacter (which belong to the Bacillota phylum) and Olsenella (Actinobacteria phylum), while reducing the abundance of Anaerotignum (Bacillota phylum). Moreover, the hawthorn leaves and vitexin treatments may alleviate obesity-related symptoms by increasing the fecal content of testosterone propionate, formoterol, and isoleucyl-prolyl-proline, and decreasing the content of Trolox. These findings highlight the potential of hawthorn leaves and vitexin as functional foods for obesity management by modulating gut microbiota pathways, offering a promising dietary therapy approach. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-43f40b8e27c5485c942ceadd35b60adf2025-08-20T03:45:28ZengElsevierCurrent Research in Food Science2665-92712025-01-011010102510.1016/j.crfs.2025.101025Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in miceZiqi Liu0Tianrui Gao1Haoyu Chang2Yuqing Xu3Letao Wang4Xiangyi Wang5Jiayin Lang6Yingxing Yu7Ying Xiao8Ye Peng9Faculty of Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, ChinaGuangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Contaminants Exposure and Health, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, ChinaFaculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, China; Corresponding author. Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China.Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, China; Corresponding author. Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China.Obesity has emerged as a global health issue with its prevalence continuously increasing and being associated with multiple comorbidities. Although existing medications are effective, they often come with significant side effects, making dietary therapy an advantageous alternative. Hawthorn leaves and their active component, vitexin, have shown potential in regulating lipid metabolism and improving gut microbiota imbalance. This study utilized a high-fat diet-induced obese mouse model, administering different doses of hawthorn leaves and vitexin for 13 weeks, and employed 16S rRNA sequencing and metabolomics to analyze the composition of gut microbiota and metabolites. The results demonstrated that hawthorn leaves and vitexin significantly slowed body weight gain, improved glucose tolerance, regulated blood lipid levels, and downregulated the expression of obesity-related gene in mice (ppar-α, ppar-γ, fas). Additionally, the treatment groups showed a significant improvement in gut microbiota diversity. Both vitexin and hawthorn leaves increased the abundance of Kineothrix, Paramuribaculum, Lawsonibacter (which belong to the Bacillota phylum) and Olsenella (Actinobacteria phylum), while reducing the abundance of Anaerotignum (Bacillota phylum). Moreover, the hawthorn leaves and vitexin treatments may alleviate obesity-related symptoms by increasing the fecal content of testosterone propionate, formoterol, and isoleucyl-prolyl-proline, and decreasing the content of Trolox. These findings highlight the potential of hawthorn leaves and vitexin as functional foods for obesity management by modulating gut microbiota pathways, offering a promising dietary therapy approach.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665927125000565ObesityHawthorn leavesVitexinGut microbiotaMetabolic regulation |
| spellingShingle | Ziqi Liu Tianrui Gao Haoyu Chang Yuqing Xu Letao Wang Xiangyi Wang Jiayin Lang Yingxing Yu Ying Xiao Ye Peng Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice Current Research in Food Science Obesity Hawthorn leaves Vitexin Gut microbiota Metabolic regulation |
| title | Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| title_full | Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| title_fullStr | Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| title_short | Hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high-fat diet-induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| title_sort | hawthorn leaf and its extract alleviate high fat diet induced obesity and modulate gut microbiome in mice |
| topic | Obesity Hawthorn leaves Vitexin Gut microbiota Metabolic regulation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665927125000565 |
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