Table 2.
Lung metabolic parameters and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) data in regular chow and high fat diet mice.
| Chow diet (n = 13) |
High Fat Diet (n = 10) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Triglycerides in lung tissue (µg/mg) | 12.96 ± 1.08 | 14.55 ± 2.20 | |
| Free fatty acids in lung tissue (µmol/mg) | 0.039 ± 0.003 | 0.038 ± 0.001 | |
| Lung malondialdehyde (uM/mg) | 36.08 ± 3.83 | 30.73 ± 4.28 | |
| Phosphorylation of IκBα (% of total) | 2.7 ± 0.9 | 2.6 ± 0.9 | |
| Lung adiponectin mRNA (fold change) | 1.00 ± 0.19 | 0.63 ± 0.18 | |
| BAL cell count (cells/mL) | 36212 ± 6775 | 31666 ± 2317 | |
| BAL differential (% of total) | Epithelial cells | 10.08 ± 1.39 | 12.58 ± 1.92 |
| Macrophages | 89.28 ± 1.43 | 86.88 ± 1.91 | |
| Eosinophils | 0 | 0 | |
| Basophils | 0 | 0 | |
| Neutrophils | 0.05 ± 0.02 | 0.02 ± 0.02 | |
| Lymphocytes | 0.59 ± 0.14 | 0.52 ± 0.2 | |