Table 2.

The effects of age on the mRNA expression of lipoprotein receptors in liver tissue (units are -fold comparison to β-actin expression)

	LDLR	LRP	HSPG
Young	6.1 ± 3.2	0.5 ± 0.2	35.4 ± 8.0
Old	5.7 ± 1.6	0.4 ± 0.3	16.4 ± 5.3 *

*P < 0.05