Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 1 Body weight again, epididymal adipose tissue weight, adiposity index and cytokines levels

From: Supplementing alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and vitamin D3 in high fat diet decrease IL-6 production in murine epididymal adipose tissue and 3T3-L1 adipocytes following LPS stimulation

	High Fat	High Fat plus Vit.D	High Fat plus Vit.E
Body weight gain (g)	19.95 ± 4.47a	12.08 ± 4.59b	10.40 ± 2.46b
Energy intake (KJ/100 g b.w)	10272 ± 584a	10686 ± 495a	10686 ± 495a
Vitamin E intake (mg) ^†	16.6 ± 2.4a	18.34 ± 1.17a	202.07 ± 17.88b
Vitamin D3 intake (mg) ^†	0.049 ± 0.007a	0.064 ± 0.004b	0.051 ± 0.001a
Epididymal WAT weight (g)	1.01 ± 0.21a	0.72 ± 0.18a	0.88 ± 0.34a
Adiposity index (g)	1.86 ± 0.50a	1.29 ± 0.35a	1.33 ± 0.55a
IL-6 (pg/ug protein ^-1 )	115.88 ± 48.01a	66.29 ± 20.97b	44.94 ± 8.49b
IL-10 (pg/ug protein ^-1 )	28.46 ± 10.18a	43.42 ± 14.06a	32.30 ± 2.24a
IL-6/IL-10	3.23 ± 1.55a	1.63 ± 0.68b	1.39 ± 0.27b

Results are expressed as mean value ± SD. ^†Vitamin consumption during the study. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05).

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