Table 2.

Hepatic gene expression in African green monkeys fed different amounts of dietary cholesterol

Gene	Lo-chol	Hi-chol	p value
SREBP2	1.03 ± 0.13	0.51 ± 0.13	0.02
HMGCR	1.07 ± 0.20	0.48 ± 0.15	0.05
apoE	1.06 ± 0.17	1.22 ± 0.24	n.s
ABCA1	1.13 ± 0.31	1.76 ± 0.55	n.s.
ABCG1	1.17 ± 0.31	3.93 ± 0.84	0.01
SRB1	1.18 ± 0.29	0.72 ± 0.22	n.s.
LDLr	1.18 ± 0.29	3.38 ± 1.90	n.s.
FAS	1.15 ± 0.26	3.72 ± 1.81	n.s
CD36	1.22 ± 0.23	1.47 ± 0.25	n.s

Gene expression was determined by quantitative real time PCR and results were normalized to GAPDH. Results were then normalized to the mean value for each gene in the Lo-chol group, which was set to a value of 1. Mean ± SEM, n=5 per diet group.