. 2017 Oct 30;10:529. doi: 10.1186/s13104-017-2859-3

Table 1.

Serum lipids in dams (gestation week 2) and newly weaned offspring (postnatal day 21) from mothers fed a chow diet, the chow diet supplemented with cholesterol (CH), or cholesterol and phytosterol (CH/PS) during gestation and lactation

Endpoint	Chow	CH	CH/PS
Maternal lipids (mmol/L), gestation week 2
Total-C	3.73 ± 0.51^a	6.36 ± 1.23^b	4.23 ± 0.34^a
Triglycerides	0.61 ± 0.02^a	0.78 ± 0.09^b	0.60 ± 0.02^a
Offspring lipids (mmol/L), postnatal day 21
Total-C	10.9 ± 0.4^a	12.5 ± 0.5^b	9.4 ± 0.3^c
LDL-C	2.6 ± 0.1^a	3.62 ± 0.1^b	1.88 ± 0.1^c
HDL-C	0.60 ± 0.0^a	0.67 ± 0.1^a	0.53 ± 0.0^a
Triglycerides	1.13 ± 0.0^a	2.09 ± 0.4^b	1.22 ± 0.1^a
Offspring lipoprotein particle number (µmol/L), postnatal day 21
Total LDL Particles	378.1 ± 27.7^a	676.3 ± 114.0^b	442.5 ± 28.5^a
Total HDL Particles	12.3 ± 0.5^a	16.3 ± 1.6^b	11.5 ± 0.5^a
Total VLDL Particles	217.9 ± 9.9^a	292.4 ± 9.2^b	201.3 ± 6.7^a

^{a, b, c}Groups not sharing a superscript are significantly different (p < 0.05). Data are mean ± SE; n = 8 chow, n = 8 CH, n = 7 CH/PS