Figure 5.

Dietary nicotinic acid supplementation improves hepatic lipid metabolism in chronic ethanol-fed rats. (A) Representative immunoblots showing hepatic proteins related to fatty acid oxidation in Ctrl, EtOH, and EtOH/NS groups are presented with quantification of the band intensities. (B) Representative immunoblots showing hepatic proteins related to fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis are presented with quantification of the band intensities. Data are expressed as the mean ± SD from 6 rats. Means without a common letter differ at p < 0.05, and absence of a symbol indicates no significant difference. Ctrl, control group; EtOH, ethanol group; EtOH/NS, ethanol with dietary nicotinic acid supplementation group.