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Table 3 Glucose metabolism

From: Hepatic steatosis in n-3 fatty acid depleted mice: focus on metabolic alterations related to tissue fatty acid composition

 

CT

Low n-3

Fasting serum glucose (mmol/l)

5.20 ± 0.29

6.09 ± 0.27*

Fasting serum insulin (pmol/l)

86.2 ± 13.3

92.6 ± 10.8

Post-OGTT serum glucose (mmol/l)

14.5 ± 0.6

16.7 ± 0.9

Post-OGTT serum insulin (pmol/l)

90.4 ± 27.1

217.5 ± 20.2*

Hepatic glycogen content (μg/mg prot)

70.9 ± 15.6

103.7 ± 21.0

  1. OGTT: serum was obtained 15 min after an oral glucose tolerance test. Data are mean ± SEM. *: means significantly different from the CT group (P < 0.05, Student t-test). n ≥ 8 per group.