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. 2013 Jan 10;10:5. doi: 10.1186/1743-7075-10-5

Table 5.

Biochemical parameters of rats maintained with the control (CC and LC) or overfeeding diets (CO and LO)

Variables
  
 Groups
  
  
 
 CC
 CO
 LC
 LO
  n Mean SEM n Mean SEM n Mean SEM n Mean SEM
Triglycerides (mg/dl)
 6
 181.4
 16.4
 5
 84.2#
 7.8
 6
 190.9*
 12.2
 6
 156.5* #
 21.9
LDL- cholesterol (mg/dl)
 6
 26.6
 4.2
 6
 33.0
 3.4
 6
 30.8
 4.7
 6
 30.5
 2.3
HDL- cholesterol (mg/dl)
 6
 23.6
 0.6
 6
 20.1
 1.9
 6
 24.6
 1.2
 6
 23.5
 0.9
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)
 6
 86.5
 3.3
 6
 86.3
 12.5
 6
 93.6
 7.4
 6
 85.2
 4.4
Castelli I
 6
 3.7
 0.1
 6
 3.9
 0.1
 6
 3.8
 0.2
 6
 3.6
 0.1
Castelli II
 6
 1.1b
 0.2
 6
 2.1a
 0.2
 6
 1.2 b
 0.2
 6
 1.3b
 0.1
FFA (μmol/l) 6 0.99 0.1 6 0.72# 0.1 6 0.88 0.0 6 0.84# 0.0

FFA, free fatty acid.

abc Mean values with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P<0·05; two-way ANOVA followed by least significant difference (LSD) test).

* Mean values were significantly different from those of the control rats (P<0·05; two-way ANOVA).

# Mean values were significantly different from those of the non-overfeeding rats (P<0·05; two-way ANOVA).

n Numbers of rats.