Table 3.

Effect of Control, wheat bran and barley based diets on weight gain, organ and tissue weights of lean and obese Zucker rats¹

	Lean			Obese
	Control	Wheat bran	Barley	Control	Wheat bran	Barley	SEM	Phenotype	Diet	P * D
Final body weight (g)	420 a	420 a	438 a	612 b	574 b	646 b	16.9	0.0001	0.034	0.244
Weight gain (g/wk)	20.6 a	20.3 a	21.9 a	33.3 b	29.5 b	35.9 b	1.2	0.0001	0.006	0.121
Organ weights (g)
Liver	9.4 a	10.5 a	10.3 a	21.0 c	18.1 bc	16.7 b	0.77	0.0001	0.109	0.005
Heart	1.11	1.10	1.16	1.17	1.24	1.23	0.034	0.007	0.346	0.554
Kidney	1.1 a	1.1 a	1.2 ab	1.4 b	1.3 b	1.4 b	0.05	0.0001	0.349	0.591
Adipose tissue weights (%BW)2	1.7 a	1.6 a	1.7 a	2.6 b	2.8 b	2.4 b	0.2	0.0001	0.757	0.437
Mesenteric	1.9 a	1.9 a	1.9 a	3.0 b	3.4 b	2.9 b	0.2	0.0001	0.398	0.470
Epididymal	2.2 a	2.2 a	2.0 a	5.9 b	5.5 b	5.3 b	0.4	0.0001	0.541	0.852
Retroperitoneal Inguinal	3.2 a	3.3 a	2.9 a	17.6 b	17.9 b	16.4 b	1.5	0.0001	0.805	0.936

¹A different letter in the same row denotes significant difference, P < 0.05. Data is presented as a mean and pooled SEM, n = 8.

² %BW, data is expressed as a percentage of rat body weight