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Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Aug 16;293(4):G894–G902. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00133.2007

Table 1.

Biochemical parameters of plasma at the end of the feeding period

Parameters	SD	HS	HS+BT
ALT, mU/ml	28.3±3.0	31.2±2.9	28.6±1.9
Glucose, mM	8.9±0.3^a	13.7±1.1^b	10.8±0.7^c
Insulin, ng/ml	2.0±0.3^a	5.1±0.5^b	2.9±0.9^a
TG, mg/dl	96.7±11.7	82.2±13.8	84.7±15.5
Cholesterol, mg/dl	33.9±1.8^a	63.8±4.4^b	52.4±5.6^c
NEFA, meq/l	0.52±0.04^a	0.35±0.05^b	0.34±0.05^b
TNF-α, pg/ml	189.5±18.8	186.8±22.3	191.3±27.2
Adiponectin, ng/ml	18.2±2.8^a	16.8±2.1^a	23.8±1.7^b

Values are means ± SD, n = 8. SD, standard diet; HS, high-sucrose diet; BT, betaine supplementation; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; TG, triglyceride; NEFA, nonesterified fatty acid. Means in a row with superscripts without a common letter differ, P ≤ 0.05.