Table 3. Measurement of Serum Lipid and Leptin Levels.

	No. of pools	Diet	total			leptin
			XOL mg/dl	HDL mg/dl	glucose mg/dl	ng/ml
Lean	14	chow	68.9±2.3a	68.2±2.3a	206.7±10.1a	3.0±0.6a
Het-Ob	13	chow	62.8±4.1a	63.6±3.8a	116.4±9.4b	1.7±0.3b
Homo-Ob	11	chow	146.7±4.9b	143.2±9.1b	428.0±23.3c	0.4±0.03b
Lean	10	xol	88.8±10.7c	70.3±5.8c	221.1±8.1d	4.9±0.5*c
Het-Ob	10	xol	139.5±3.0*d	97.7±2.1*d	200.1±20.8*d	2.7±0.4d
Homo-Ob	8	xol	221.5±14.6*e	192.0±9.7*e	395.1±18.9*e	0.6±0.05e
Two Way ANOVA p-value
Strain Effects			<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Diet Effects			<0.001	<0.001	0.025	0.015
Strain-Diet Interaction			<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.295

NOTE: Data represent mean ±SEM.

Different superscript letters among strains on same diet indicate significant difference from one another, p < 0.001. *p < 0.05 vs same strain on chow diet.

Abbreviations: XOL = Cholesterol, HDL = High Density Lipoprotein