. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Nutr Cancer. 2010 Jul;62(5):567–573. doi: 10.1080/01635580903532408

Table 2.

Effect of meat-based diets on aberrant crypt foci and mucin-depleted foci in the colon of rats 107 d after the injection of dimethylhydrazine^a

Diets^b	Heme intake	Aberrant Crypt Foci				Mucin Depleted Foci
Diets^b	Heme intake	ACF/colon		Crypts/ACF		MDF/colon		Crypts/MDF

	μmol/day	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Control	0	105	24	2.3	0.2	3.5	2.0	4.6	1.7
Ham	0.45	119^c	16	2.1	0.1	8.5^c	2.2	4.3	1.2

Values are means and SD, N = 10 rats/dietary group

Diets were based on a low calcium formula, as shown in Table 1.

Significantly different from control group by 2-way ANOVA (ACF, P<0.05) and by Welsh’s test (MDF, P<0.0001)