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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Biol Chem. 2007 Jun 29;282(34):24642–24649. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M702530200

FIGURE 1. Fat absorption efficiency in mice consuming a high fat/high cholesterol Western-type diet.

FIGURE 1

Mice maintained on a high fat/high cholesterol diet were fed a similar high fat/high cholesterol diet for 4 days that also contained the non-absorbable marker sucrose polybehenate as 5% of the dietary fat. Fecal samples were collected daily. Fatty acids present in the original diet as well as the feces were derivatized to their respective methyl esters and quantified by gas chromatography. Fat absorption was calculated from the ratios of behenic acid to other fatty acids in the diet versus the feces. Two experiments were averaged for n = 6 wild type (WT), n =7 PTL−/−, n = 8 CEL−/− and n = 7 PTL−/−,CEL−/− mice and shown as the means ± S.E. for each genotype. *, p < 0.05; ***, p < 0.001 (differences from wild type mice).