Moringa Study (20151151B)

We acknowledge the Medical Faculty Research Endowment Fund, Faculty of Health Sciences Research Committee and School of Physiology of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (Grant No: 001.401.8521101…PHSLMFR); National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant No: IFR 2010041900009); Federal University Birnin Kebbi (Nigeria) and Tertiary Education Trust Fund of Nigeria for supporting the MSc candidate.

Nasiru Muhammad MBBS, MSc Med, PhD (in process) is the lead researcher in the study which also includes females rats. He can be contacted at:1332380@students.wits.ac.za He is a physiologist with research interests in Nutrition, metabolism and endocrine physiology . He is currently a Lecturer at Federal University Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi state, Nigeria as well as PHD candidate at Wits university. He has a clinical background and has served as a Medical officer. His other papers can be found at N. Muhammad, K.G. Ibrahim, A.R. Ndhlala and K.H. Erlwanger (2020). Moringa oleifera Lam. prevents the development of high fructose diet-induced fatty liver. South African Journal of Botany, 129: 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.12.003 2 Muhammad N, Lembede BW, and Erlwanger KH. (2020). Neonatal zingerone protects against the development of high-fructose diet-induced metabolic syndrome in adult Sprague-Dawley rats. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, doi: 10.1017/S2040174420000525