{"id":28608,"date":"2024-12-10T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28608"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:11:34","slug":"melye-amiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/melye-amiley\/","title":{"rendered":"Melye-amiley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Melye-amiley:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>traditional fermented bambooshoot variety of Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has anti-obesity effects and offers a solution to weight management and metabolic health,<\/li>\n<li>It reduces lipid accumulation and <strong>increases fatty acid \u03b2-oxidation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Highlights of the research<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Based on in vitro cell culture studies the team has observed that a traditional fermented bamboo shoot variety of Tripura, called \u2018Melye-amiley\u2019 <strong>can reduce intracellular lipid accumulation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The process involved an increase in the expression of lipolytic (HSL, LPL, and Agtl) and fat browning regulator genes (UCP1, PRDM16, and PGC1-alpha).<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, the study demonstrates that treatment with Melye-amiley leads to the <strong>upregulation of thermogenic protein expression<\/strong> via the AMPK signaling pathway.<\/li>\n<li>This process stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis and enhances fatty acid \u03b2-oxidation, offering a multifaceted approach to weight management and metabolic health.<\/li>\n<li>These findings suggest that fermented bamboo shoot extract has promising anti-obesity effects by boosting energy expenditure in white adipocytes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is obesity?<\/h3>\n<p>It is defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2082373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fermented bamboo shoot of Tripura possesses anti-obesity property<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melye-amiley is a traditional fermented bamboo shoot variety of Tripura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}