. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 12.

Published in final edited form as: J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2020 Apr 12;83(7):249–268. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2020.1748779

Table 2.

Characterization of Healthy and MetS Mice.

	Healthy Control	Healthy AgNPs	MetS Control	MetS AgNPs
Body Weight (g)	34.3 ± 0.9	32.6 ± 1.7	50.4 ± 1.1^#	48.75 ± 1.2^#
HDL (mg/dL)	132.7 ± 10.1	128.7 ± 13.4	220.9 ± 10.7^#	244.3 ± 19.18^#
LDL/VLDL (mg/dL)	43.1 ± 1.3	46.3 ± 2.7	56.1 ± 2.7^#	61.3 ± 4.1^#
Total Cholesterol (mg/dL)	159.8 ± 12.9	157.8 ± 10.3	273.5 ± 18.6^#	298.4 ± 16.1^#
Insulin (ng/mL)	0.53 ± 0.1	0.59 ± 0.1	8.26 ± 2.4^#	7.52 ± 2.1^#
% HBA1c	4.21 ± 0.1	4.45 ± 0.2	4.55 ± 0.6	4.78 ± 0.2

Serum from healthy and MetS mice was characterized for traditional lipid endpoints via commercially available kits to measure total bound and unbound cholesterol, HDL, LDL/VLDL, insulin, and glycated hemoglobin (HBA1c).

denotes statistical significance as compared to the corresponding healthy group. Comparisons were performed by two-way ANOVA with Tukey post hoc analysis; p<0.05). All analyses are reported as mean ± SEM, n= 7–8/group.