Dear colleagues in a study which aims to test the effect of a medicinal plant on obesity, I want to know if there is a protocol for rapidly inducing obesity in rats.
To induce dyslipidemia in rats, a high fat diet (a modified AIN-93 diet with 45% kcal from fats, prepared as per formula described by Sasidharan et al, 2013) was used; and the induced dyslipidemia was confirmed by serum lipid profiling.