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Table 6 Liver lipids

From: Fish oil and krill oil supplementations differentially regulate lipid catabolic and synthetic pathways in mice

Liver lipids

High fat

FO

KO

K-W

μmol/g

   

p

Total Cholesterol

5.6 (4.8–6.7)

6.9 (6.0–10.4)a*

7.0 (5.9–9.7)b*

0.005

Triacylglycerol

12.2 (8.0–50.8)

42.2 (22.7–55.4)

17.0 (6.7–32.7)

0.045

Phospholipids

18.5 (16.3–20.8)

21.7 (21.5–23.5)a**

20.7 (19.2–22.6)

0.002

  1. Data is shown as median and range. High fat n = 9, FO n = 5, KO n = 6. a = HF vs. FO, b = HF vs. KO, *= p <0.05, **= p <0.01 for Dunn’s test. K-W, p indicates the p-value with the Kruskal-Wallace test. FO; fish oil, KO; Krill oil.