Table 1.

Effects of 10 weeks of barley feeding on body composition and food consumption in mice.

	KSOM			αMEM
	Rice diet			Rice diet			Barley diet
Age at administration of test diet (weeks)	19	±	0.0	21	±	0.6*	21	±	0.7
Age after 10 weeks of feeding (weeks)	28	±	0.0	30	±	0.6*	30	±	0.7
Body weight at administration of test diet (g)	59	±	1.2	75	±	2.9*	75	±	3.3
Body weight after 10 weeks of feeding (g)	70	±	3.5	81	±	4.2	84	±	3.8
Blood glucose, fasting (mg/dL)	178	±	13	271	±	31	300	±	58
Blood glucose after glucose loading (mg/dL)	281	±	34	420	±	59	422	±	40
Blood glucose after 10 weeks (mg/dL)	191	±	7	334	±	73	290	±	71
Liver weight (g)	4.1	±	0.3	5.4	±	0.4	5.8	±	0.6
Mesenteric fatty tissue weight (g)	1.4	±	0.2	1.4	±	0.2	1.5	±	0.1
Testicular fatty tissue weight (g)	3.7	±	0.4	3.0	±	0.4	2.7	±	0.3
Liver triglyceride (mg/dL)	339	±	37	331	±	54	396	±	52
Liver MDA (μM)	1.9	±	0.4	1.3	±	0.2	1.8	±	0.3
Plasma triglyceride (mg/dL)	179	±	17	184	±	27	199	±	22
Plasma NEFA (mEq/L)	0.82	±	0.07	0.71	±	0.05	0.70	±	0.08
Plasma AST (IU/L)	105	±	10	106	±	5	113	±	9
Plasma ALT (IU/L)	27	±	6	39	±	8	42	±	11
Food consumption (g/day)	4.74	±	0.04	7.22	±	0.46*	8.56	±	1.08

MDA, malondialdehyde; NEFA, non-esterified fatty acid; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; αMEM, α-minimum essential medium mice; KSOM, potassium simplex optimized medium mice. Data are expressed as means ± standard error of the mean (8–12 mice). Statistical analyses were performed by Student's t-test. *P < 0.05 compared with KSOM mice.