Table 4.

Hepatic total cholesterol (TC), free cholesterol (FC) cholesteryl ester (CE) and TG of guinea pigs fed a control diet, low dose MTPi (LDI), high dose MTPi (HDI) or atorvastatin¹.

Diets	TC	FC	CE	TG
		(mg/g)
Control (n = 10)	1.20 ± 0.53	1.00 ± 0.44	0.20 ± 0.23	16.2 ± 2.8
LDI (n = 10)	1.47 ± 0.40	1.24 ± 0.35	0.23 ± 0.11	13.9 ± 9.4
HDI (n = 9)	1.42 ± 0.66	0.98 ± 0.39	0.44 ± 0.58	13.5 ± 7.8
Atorvastatin (n = 9)	1.71 ± 0.76	1.31 ± 0.56	0.40 ± 0.39	18.8 ± 10.8

¹Data are presented as mean ± SD for n = the number of guinea pigs indicated in parenthesis.