Table 2.

Body weight, plasma concentrations, and hepatic lipid content of Zucker fatty rats fed each diet for 4 weeks

	PO	PL	SO	SL
Body weight (g)	607.21 ± 11.21	600.76 ± 17.36	624.62 ± 13.25	621.15 ± 11.40
Visceral fat (g/kg BW)	137.34 ± 4.54	135.15 ± 6.63	142.92 ± 3.72	142.62 ± 3.61
Mesenteric fat	37.13 ± 1.42	37.35 ± 2.15	41.10 ± 1.48	39.49 ± 1.85
Epididymal fat	38.41 ± 1.89	36.93 ± 2.47	42.38 ± 2.36	40.74 ± 1.60
Retroperitoneal fat	61.80 ± 5.38	60.87 ± 3.33	59.44 ± 1.34	62.44 ± 1.60
Plasma concentrations
Glucose (mmol/L)	7.68 ± 0.15	6.55 ± 0.46	7.04 ± 0.31	8.07 ± 1.07
Insulin (nmol/L)	1.91 ± 0.21	1.62 ± 0.25	1.31 ± 0.09	2.13 ± 0.43
TG (mg/dL)	147 ± 14	166 ± 23	215 ± 37	150 ± 18
T-Chol (mg/dL)	162 ± 14	159 ± 15	226 ± 24*	171 ± 17
NEFA (mEq/L)	0.68 ± 0.05	0.76 ± 0.05	0.74 ± 0.06	0.74 ± 0.05
Adiponectin (µg/mL)	10.18 ± 3.83	9.25 ± 3.19	13.56 ± 2.18	13.57 ± 3.81
Leptin (pg/mL)	127.4 ± 23.5	93.6 ± 21.1	131.0 ± 14.4	129.0 ± 10.5
Hepatic TG (mg/g tissue)	107 ± 5.0	128 ± 18	121 ± 15	128 ± 18

Values are mean ± SEM (n = 6). *p<0.05 vs PO, PL, SL groups for SO group.