Table 9.

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

Treatment	LDL-R	HMG-CoAR	ACAT2
No chrysophanol	0.23 ± 0.08	0.25 ± 0.04	0.36 ± 0.12
Chrysophanol: low dose	0.38 ± 0.11*	0.27 ± 0.17	0.32 ± 0.06
Chrysophanol: medium dose	0.61 ± 0.15**	0.29 ± 0.12	0.21 ± 0.11*
Chrysophanol: high dose	0.95 ± 0.13**	0.51 ± 0.14**	0.19 ± 0.09*
Atorvastatin	1.61 ± 0.26**	0.97 ± 0.28**	0.22 ± 0.07*

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