Obesity Induces Artery-Specific Alterations: Evaluation of Vascular Function and Inflammatory and Smooth Muscle Phenotypic Markers

Table 2

Body composition and serum metabolic and inflammatory markers of C57BL/6 mice after 16 weeks of feeding with control (control mice) and high-fat diet (obese mice).

	Control mice	Obese mice
Gain of body weight (g)	9.5 ± 0.3
Retroperitoneal fat/body weight (mg/g)	3.4 ± 0.5
Periepididymal fat/body weight (mg/g)	10.1 ± 1.1
Triglycerides (mg/dl)	47.1 ± 4.2	38.3 ± 5.3
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)	87.4 ± 4.5
HDL (mg/dl)	54.7 ± 2.6
LDL (mg/dl)	25.1 ± 2.4
Glucose (mg/dl)	127.0 ± 2.1
Insulin (pmol/l)	25.6 ± 3.6
TNF-α (pg/ml)	26.6 ± 1.7
IL-6 (pg/ml)	57.5 ± 2.9	46.6 ± 7.3

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Unpaired -test: versus control mice. .