TABLE 2.

Food intake, body weight, body fat composition, and plasma humoral factors in WT and CCM mice fed with either control or high fat diet

Values are expressed as the mean ± S.E. (n = 6). NEFA, non-esterified fatty acids.

	WT		CCM
	Control	High fat	Control	High fat
Caloric consumption (kcal/day)	16.0 ± 0.67	19.85 ± 0.49a	15.04 ± 1.03	18.29 ± 0.96a
Body weight (g)	33.54 ± 0.58	38.53 ± 1.03a	33.03 ± 0.40	40.35 ± 0.91a
Body fat composition (%)	28.28 ± 2.87	36.39 ± 1.96a	28.58 ± 0.99	35.69 ± 1.61a
Plasma NEFA (mm)	0.065 ± 0.013	0.079 ± 0.013	0.093 ± 0.007	0.099 ± 0.023
Plasma triglyceride (mg/dl)	104.2 ± 20.57	28.71 ± 6.23a	94.42 ± 13.74	28.67 ± 2.04a
Plasma glucose (mg/dl)	280.3 ± 12.13	283.2 ± 7.31	265.5 ± 21.03	276.9 ± 16.41
Plasma insulin (μg/l)	2.57 ± 0.27	3.73 ± 0.68a	2.78 ± 0.32	4.34 ± 0.64a
Plasma leptin (ng/ml)	15.07 ± 3.35	30.31 ± 8.22a	18.07 ± 2.91	45.95 ± 7.54a

^a Control versus high fat diet within a genotype.