The effect of trimethylamine N-oxide on the metabolism of visceral white adipose tissue in spontaneously hypertensive rat

Male SHRs and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto(WKY) rats were purchased from Vital River (Vital River Laboratory Animal Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China). Briefly, eightteen SHRs aged seven to eight weeks old were randomly assigned to one of three groups: water group (drinking tap water), water containing 333 mg/L or 1g/L TMAO group (TMAO, product number: T1362, Tokyo Chemical Industry, Japan). Six WKY rats of the same age were used as normotensive controls. In this study, WKY rats (n=6), SHR (n=6), and SHR treated with 1g/L TMAO (n=6) were uesd for experiments.