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Table 1 Blood biochemistry from the study rats

From: Vitamin E protects against extraskeletal calcification in uremic rats fed high fat diets

 

PreNx-NF

PreNx-HF

Nx-NF

Nx-NF-VitE

Nx-HF

Nx-HF-VitE

Creatinine (mg/dl)

0.6 ± 0.1a

0.5 ± 0.1a

1.3 ± 0.1b

1.0 ± 0.1d

1.8 ± 0.2c

1.5 ± 0.2b

Calcium (mmol/l)

1.30 ± 0.02a

1.29 ± 0.02a

1.14 ± 0.02b

1.04 ± 0.02c

1.01 ± 0.02c

1.00 ± 0.02c

Phosphorus (mg/dl)

3.9 ± 0.4a

4.1 ± 0.2a

6.6 ± 1.0a

4.2 ± 0.4a

10.8 ± 1.4b

8.5 ± 0.5b

Glucose (mg/dl)

125.4 ± 1.8a

134.6 ± 2.6b

167.8 ± 5.6c

165.3 ± 5.9c

158.2 ± 6.4c

145.0 ± 2.3b

Insulin (ng/ml)

0.21 ± 0.04a

0.16 ± 0.02a

0.75 ± 0.18b

0.52 ± 0.09b

0.32 ± 0.14a

0.71 ± 0.21b

Total Cholesterol (mg/dl)

60.2 ± 2.2a

64.5 ± 3.0a

114.4 ± 6.6b

68.8 ± 6.8a

113.2 ± 5.4b

117.5 ± 10.6b

LDL Cholesterol (mg/dl)

5.0 ± 0.4a

6.6 ± 0.3b

7.6 ± 1.3b

4.6 ± 0.6a

9.6 ± 1.6c

10.5 ± 2.1c

HDL Cholesterol (mg/dl)

23.1 ± 1.0a

25.9 ± 1.9a

44.6 ± 2.0b

32.8 ± 2.2c

48.8 ± 3.7b

44.5 ± 4.4b

Triglycerides (mg/dl)

50.3 ± 3.2a

72.9 ± 5.9b

32.6 ± 3.2c

14.1 ± 1.2d

35.2 ± 3.5c

48.3 ± 10.7a

FGF23 (pg/ml)

217 ± 17a

926 ± 121b

8984 ± 2333c

5055 ± 1588c

20492 ± 3906d

24579 ± 7879d

Leptin (ng/ml)

1.4 ± 0.2a

1.4 ± 0.2a

0.7 ± 0.3b

1.4 ± 0.4a

1.8 ± 0.4a

0.8 ± 0.5a

PTH (pg/ml)

70.9 ± 7.6a

55.1 ± 2.5a

59.4 ± 3.9a

59.3 ± 4.2a

64.3 ± 6.9a

71.1 ± 14.2a

Calcitriol (pg/ml)

77.7 ± 9.2a

11.3 ± 1.2b

54.3 ± 8.7a

48.5 ± 6.9a

64.6 ± 5.1a

48.7 ± 12.9a

  1. For each parameter, values with different superscript are significantly (p < 0.05) different