Table 1. Metabolic data of four groups at 16 weeks of experiment.

	Normal diet		High-fat diet
Groups	WT	SR-A−/−	WT	SR-A−/−
Body weight (g)	34.6±1.5	35.2±1.6	55.2±1.8a	54.5±1.7
BP (mm Hg)	92.0±11.2	91.1±8.9	94.2±10.3	93.2±10.7
Plasma Cr (μmol/l)	67.5±4.3	66.2±4.8	106.0±7.8a	82.4±6.5b
Plasma triglyceride (mmol/l)	1.31±0.31	1.24±0.44	2.58±0.53a	2.45±0.46
Plasma cholesterol (mmol/l)	2.35±0.43	2.42±0.36	6.73±0.62a	6.36±0.53
Plasma MCP-1 (μg/l)	125.1±6.7	127.0±10.3	294.0±11.2a	144.0±10.2b
Plasma IL-6 (μg/l)	109.43±6.3	111.28±9.5	445.3±15.6a	169.4±8.7b
Plasma TNF-α (μg/l)	69.50±4.8	69.20±4.5	144.6±10.9a	99.9±6.4b

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; Cr, creatinine; IL-6, interleukin-6; MCP-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1; SR-A, scavenger receptor A; SR-A^−/−, SR-A deficiency mice; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α WT, SR-A wild-type mice.

^aP<0.05 versus WT mice fed with normal diet.

^bP<0.05 versus WT mice fed high-fat diet.

Data are means±s.e.m.; n=12 in each group.