Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	High fat diet fed mice characterization
Type of data	Figure
How data was acquired	Food intake and body weight were recorded; biochemical indexes in serum were obtained with commercial kit and microplate reader
Data format	Analyzed
Experimental factors	Mice were fed a regular chow diet or HFD with oral administration of saline, metformin (200 mg/kg), resveratrol (50 mg/kg), or injected intraperitoneally (ip) with digoxin (1 mg/kg) respectively every day. Mice were fasted for 8 h before collecting blood from the orbital sinus.
Experimental features	Food intake and body weight were recorded. The measurement of the contents of free fatty acids (FFAs), glycerol, total cholesterol (TC) and triglyceride (TG) were performed using the commercial kits.
Data source location	Shanghai, China
Data accessibility	Data are presented in this article