Table 1.

Effect of lithogenic diet on body weight, organ weights and plasma lipid levels

	Chow	LD
Initial body weight (g)	21.00 ± 0.76	21.73 ± 0.73
Final body weight (g)	21.48 ± 1.07	23.82 ± 1.24*
Liver weight (mg)	945.29 ± 160.66	1361.71 ± 179.72*
Gallbladder volume (μL)	13.29 ± 4.46	74.57 ± 29.38*
Plasma lipid
TC (mmol/L)	2.92 ± 0.35	4.49 ± 1.16*
HDL (mmol/L)	2.35 ± 0.24	3.24 ± 0.80*
LDL (mmol/L)	0.09 ± 0.04	1.24 ± 0.52*

TC total cholesterol, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein. ‘*’ represents p < 0.05