Table 2.
Effects of refeeding a control diet or a diet containing sodium butyrate after starvation on liver triacylglycerol content and biochemical parametaers in serum.
| non-Fasting (n = 6) | Fasting (n = 7) | Refeeding 12 h |
Refeeding 24 h |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control |
NaB |
Control |
NaB |
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| (n = 6) | (n = 6) | (n = 6) | (n = 6) | |||
| Food consumption (g) | – | – | 15.7 ± 0.4 a | 14.1 ± 0.4 a | 23.2 ± 0.7 b | 21.5 ± 1.4 b |
| Liver weight (g/100g BW) | 4.39 ± 0.10 | 2.71 ± 0.05 | 4.33 ± 0.12 | 4.14 ± 0.25 | 4.87 ± 0.10 | 4.74 ± 0.21 |
| Liver triacylglycerol (mg/g liver) | 7.83 ± 0.14 | 6.30 ± 0.45 | 8.46 ± 0.46 | 7.86 ± 0.59 | 10.3 ± 0.9 | 7.59 ± 0.77 |
| Serum triacylglycerol (mg/dL) | 152 ± 15 | 20.4 ± 2.7 | 157 ± 10 | 147 ± 13 | 138 ± 16 | 188 ± 25 |
| Serum glucose (mg/dL) | 160 ± 6 | 134 ± 9 | 180 ± 11 | 205 ± 14 | 188 ± 22 | 163 ± 7 |
| Serum insulin (ng/mL) | 1.04 ± 0.13 | 0.07 ± 0.00 | 1.59 ± 0.24 | 1.65 ± 0.28 | 1.59 ± 0.20 | 1.31 ± 0.26 |
| Serum β-hydroxybutyrate (nmol/μL) | 0.06 ± 0.02 | 1.32 ± 0.32 | 0.14 ± 0.03 ab | 0.25 ± 0.06 b | 0.06 ± 0.02 a | 0.19 ± 0.02 ab |
Data are expressed as means ± SEM for 6–7 rats.
The data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by a post hoc Steel-Dwass an multiple comparison among 4 refeeding groups.
a-b: Different letters indicate significant differences (p < 0.05).