. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 18.

Published in final edited form as: Horm Metab Res. 2011 Mar 29;43(7):470–476. doi: 10.1055/s-0031-1273763

Table 2.

Diet-Induced Vascular Changes

Parameter	Chow	HFD
Plasma nitrates/nitrites (NOx) (μM), n=4	39.0 ± 6.7	95.4 ± 19.3^*
Plasma tumor necrosis factor alpha (pg/mL), n=4–6	292 ± 72	598 ± 111^*
Plasma superoxide dismutase activity (U/mL), n=6	6.71 ± 0.53	4.70 ± 0.74^*
Plasma endothelin-1 (pg/mL), n=9	3.41 ± 0.2	2.92 ± 0.2

p≤0.05 from Chow.