Table 1.

Serum parameters in rabbits that were fed with chow or cholesterol diets and receiving either copper, zinc, copper and zinc or no additions to their drinking water

	Chow	Chow + Zn	Chow + Cu	Chow + Zn + Cu	Cholesterol	Cholesterol + Zn	Cholesterol + Cu	Cholesterol + Zn + Cu
n	8	7	8	7	8	8	8	8
Copper (µmol/l)	4.11 ± 1.6	5.5 ± 2.9	7.04 ± 2.5*	7.58 ± 1.2*	6.32 ± 1.4*	7.64 ± 1.9	11.3 ± 1.9§	10.3 ± 3.0‡
Zinc (µmol/l)	12.9 ± 1.2§	24.9 ± 2.8†	12.7 ± 5.9	24.4 ± 5.3†	8.39 ± 1.4	22.1 ± 4.3§	10.9 ± 3.8	23.0 ± 3.4§
TBARS (µM)	0.24 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.01	0.61 ± 0.02†	0.36 ± 0.04†§	0.33 ± 0.04†§	0.42 ± 0.02†§

TBARS, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances.

^*P < 0.05 (vs. chow).

^†P < 0.001 (vs. chow).

^‡P < 0.05 (vs. cholesterol alone).

^§P < 0.001 (vs. cholesterol alone).