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Table 4 Lipid characteristics of high fat diets used to induce steatosis and steatohepatitis

From: Long term highly saturated fat diet does not induce NASH in Wistar rats

 

coconut diet

butter diet

Lieber

Zou

Rivera

Gauthier

Fan

Rat

Wistar

Wistar

Sprague Dawley

Sprague Dawley

Wistar

Sprague Dawley

Sprague Dawley

Fat (w/w)

45% coconut

45% butter

30.1% corn oil

17.6% olive oil

1.7% safflower oil

35.7% corn oil

15% corn oil

3.4% corn oil

14.6% lard

10% lard oil

2% cholesterol

SFA (% fat)

86.5

51.3

13

13

13

34

39

MUFA (% fat)

5.8

21

41

24

27.6

42

45

PUFA (% fat)

1.8

3

42

59

54.7

20

21

Carbohydrate (w/w)

24.7% corn starch

16.2% dextrin maltose

13.4% sucrose

50% sucrose

39% corn starch

nd

Time of diet (week)

14

14

3

6

6

8

16

12

steatosis

no

no

mild

mild

no

yes

yes

yes

inflammation

no

no

yes

yes

no

nd

nd

mild

fibrosis

no

no

yes

nd

no

nd

nd

no

  1. Abbreviations: SFA, saturated fatty acid; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid; nd, not determined.