Cereal based diets modulate some markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in lean and obese Zucker rats

Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 1 Diet composition1

	Control	Wheat bran g/kg	Barley
α-cellulose wheat bran barley	45	164.8	608.1
cornstarch	534.5	447.2	55.3
casein	200	174.1	130.1
sucrose	100	100	100
sunflower seed oil	70	70	70
mineral mix²	35	35	35
vitamin mix³	10	10	10
cystine	3	3	3
choline	2.5	2.5	2.5

¹ All diets contain 4.5% neutral non-starch polysaccharides and the wheat bran and barley were added as a flour of similar particle size (2-3 mm).
² mineral mix AIN-93G
³ vitamin mix AIN-76, with only 33% of α-tocopherol was provided.

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