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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Infect Dis. 2016 Jul 6;2(8):552–563. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00051

Table 2.

Average Concentrations of Proteins, Free Cholesterol, Triglycerides, DNA, and RNA in Rabbit Plasma, Caseum, and Surrogate Caseum Produced from THPMa

plasma (μg/μL) caseum (μg/mg) surrogate (μg/mg)
protein 54.7 ± 5.0   56.7 ± 4.7   5.3 ± 2.4
free cholesterol 0.14 ± 0.02 3.19 ± 0.72 2.82 ± 1.03
triglycerideb 0.21 ± 0.04 0.32 ± 0.02 12.2 ± 2.1
DNA 0.17 ± 0.01 2.0 ± 0.3
RNA 0.40 ± 0.01 0.33 ± 0.1
a

Average values and standard deviations from three independent biological replicates are shown.

b

The commercial assay is provided as a method to quantify triglycerides but the read-out also includes di- and monoglycerides.