Figure 6. Chronic consumption of diets enriched in PA plus MA leads to lipodystrophy and progressive liver disease and effect of myriocin therapy.
Mice were fed diets enriched in PA, MA or PA plus MA (PM) for 6 months with or without myriocin treatment in the last 4 months (PM+Myr). Effect on body weigh, liver/body weight, spleen weight and adipose tissue weight were recorded at the end of the study A. Serum transaminases levels were determined and liver processed for H&E analyses B. at the end of 6 months. Liver sections were staining for Sirius red to determine collagen deposition and expression of Col1α1 was determined by RT-PCR C. Inflammatory cytokine expression IL-1β, IL-6 and TNFα was examined in liver samples from mice fed PA, MA or PA plus MA (PM). Liver sections from mice were processed for oil-red staining E. Results are the mean±SEM of N = 8-10 individual mice. *p < 0.05 vs. control and PA-treated PMH.