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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Regul Pept. 2011 Oct 3;173(1-3):60–63. doi: 10.1016/j.regpep.2011.09.006

Figure 1. Effect of chronic high-fat (HF) diet on basal plasma ghrelin levels and the plasma ghrelin response to fasting.

Figure 1

Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a normal fat-AIN-76A (10% fat calories) or a HF diet (~45% fat calories) for either 10 or 60 weeks. Plasma was harvested either from ad lib fed or overnight fasted (~18 h) rats. Ghrelin levels were measured by immunoassay. The number inside the parenthesis is the number of rats/group. * =P <0.05 vs. respective mean in rats fed AIN-76A diet; † = P < 0.05 vs. respective basal plasma ghrelin mean.