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Therefore, this study is to investigate the effect of water and ethanol extraction products of RQB on the prevention of liquid alcoholic diet-induced acute liver injury in mice. The mice were given whole grain powder of red quinoa (RQ-P), RQB ethanol extract (RQB-E), RQB water extract (RQB-W), and rutin orally for 6 weeks, respectively. The results indicated that RQB-E, RQB-W, and rutin decreased alcoholic diet-induced activities of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase, and the levels of serum triglyceride, total cholesterol, and hepatic triglyceride. Hematoxylin and eosin staining of liver tissues showed that RQB-E and RQB-W reduced lipid droplet accumulation and liver injury. However, ethanol extraction process can gain high rutin and antioxidative agents contents from red quinoa, that showed strong effects in preventing alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver injury via increasing superoxide dismutase\/catalase antioxidative system and repressing the expressions of fatty acid synthesis enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules26226973","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,19]],"date-time":"2021-11-19T02:43:09Z","timestamp":1637289789000},"page":"6973","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Red Quinoa Bran Extract Prevented Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease via Increasing Antioxidative System and Repressing Fatty Acid Synthesis Factors in Mice Fed Alcohol Liquid Diet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Ting-An","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 950, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo-Jun","family":"Ke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 950, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shih-Cheng","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sinfong Agricultural Technology Company, Taipei 110, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0203-9465","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chun-Lin","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 950, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1136","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1530-0277.2009.00956.x","article-title":"Understanding and Treating Patients With Alcoholic Cirrhosis: An Update","volume":"33","author":"Addolorato","year":"2009","journal-title":"Alcohol. 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