Table 4.

Plasma lipids in female and male Hannover Sprague-Dawley (HanSD) and transgenic rats (TGR) aged 9 months.

Females	HanSD (n=8)	TGR (n=8)
Triglycerides (mmol/l)	0.26 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.03
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.96 ± 0.14	1.84 ± 0.10
HDL (mmol/l)	1.49 ± 0.15	1.44 ± 0.08
LDL (mmol/l)	0.42 ± 0.09	0.35 ± 0.04
TC/HDL ratio	1.36 ± 0.11	1.28 ± 0.03
Males	HanSD (n=6)	TGR (n=5)
Triglycerides (mmol/l)	0.85 ± 0.06#	0.79 ± 0.15#
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	2.37 ± 0.08#	2.59 ± 0.18#
HDL (mmol/l)	1.28 ± 0.03	1.37 ± 0.12
LDL (mmol/l)	0.91 ± 0.04#	1.06 ± 0.13#
TC/HDL ratio	1.84 ± 0.02#	1.91 ± 0.12#

All values are mean ± SEM, n, number of animals is given in parentheses. Significantly different:

^#P ≤ 0.05 vs. females.

HDL, high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol; LDL, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol; TC, total cholesterol