Table 2.

Body and tissue weight, plasma biochemicals and mean blood pressure of mice administrated saline or 50 mg/kg flavan-3-ols for 2 weeks

	Control		Flavan-3-ols
	(n=6)		(n=6)
Body weight, g	22.5 ±	0.76	23.0 ±	0.26
Liver, g	0.85 ±	0.03	0.85 ±	0.04
Gastrocnemius, g	0.31 ±	0.03	0.33 ±	0.02
Soleus, g	0.02 ±	0.003	0.02 ±	0.003
Brown adipose tissue, g	0.05 ±	0.01	0.07 ±	0.07
Epidermal fat, g	0.16 ±	0.04	0.21 ±	0.02
Posterior abdominal fat, g	0.06 ±	0.01	0.06 ±	0.01
Plasma free fatty acid, mg/dl	0.67 ±	0.13	0.83 ±	0.14
Plasma glucose, mg/dl	194 ±	38.8	143 ±	33.4*
Mean blood pressure, mmHg	108 ±	5.2	96.5 ±	6.0*

Each value represents mean and SD.

Significantly difference from control; *p<0.05.