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. 2015 Jul 15;5(1):11–21. doi: 10.1080/21623945.2015.1061723

Table 2.

Energy intake, weight gain and body fat mass of Wistar and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats fed either with standard (St) or high-fat (HF) diet during 17 weeks

  Wistar Rat
SD Rat
Two-way ANOVAP values
  St HF St HF Diet Strain Interaction
Energy Ingested (Kcal/day) 53.0 ± 1.2 74.7 ± 1.4** 53.7 ± 0.6 66.6 ± 1.3*,†*, <0.001 0.005 0.001
Drink Ingested (mL) 31.9 ± 1.9 24.1 ± 1.1 29.6 ± 0.7 24.0 ± 1.4 <0.001 0.371 0.437
Weight Gain (g) 190.0 ± 9.1 317.2 ± 25.5 208.8 ± 11.5 276.2 ± 14.3 <0.001 0.506 0.082
Fat Mass (g) 181.3 ± 6.8 259.2 ± 16.8 179.3 ± 6.1 218.1 ± 8.5 <0.001 0.053 0.076

Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 6 rats per group).

*

P < 0.05 vs respective St diet group and

P < 0.05 between HF diet groups.