Low-Dose Fluvastatin Prevents the Functional Alterations of Endothelium Induced by Short-Term Cholesterol Feeding in Rabbit Carotid Artery

Table 1

Body weights and plasma total cholesterol levels from all groups of rabbits.

		Control group	Cholesterol group	Cholesterol + fluvastatin group
Body weight (kg)	Start	2.64 ± 0.08	2.69 ± 0.13	2.67 ± 0.07
	End	2.77 ± 0.09	2.56 ± 0.09	2.50 ± 0.07
Plasma total cholesterol (mmol/L)	Start	0.94 ± 0.15	1.30 ± 0.18	1.02 ± 0.18
	End	1.20 ± 0.13	13.82 ± 1.88^+	9.40 ± 1.07*

⁺𝑃<0.001, control versus cholesterol and *𝑃<0.01 control versus cholesterol + fluvastatin, ANOVA followed by Bonferroni post hoc test. Data are expressed as means of five independent measurements using five animals in each group. Data are given ± S.E.M.