Table 7.

The effects of nuciferine treatment on cholesterol metabolism in liver cells (protein analysis).

Treatment	LDL-R	HMG-CoAR	ACAT2
No nuciferine	0.25 ± 0.02	0.26 ± 0.03	1.23 ± 0.02
Nuciferine: low dose	0.60 ± 0.11**	0.48 ± 0.16**	0.76 ± 0.16**
Nuciferine: medium dose	0.91 ± 0.14**	0.53 ± 0.14**	0.87 ± 0.25**
Nuciferine: high dose	0.98 ± 0.26**	0.51 ± 0.23*	0.71 ± 0.18**
Atorvastatin	1.68 ± 0.21**	0.68 ± 0.19**	0.58 ± 0.22**

Note: comparison with no-drug control group, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.