The Effects of Jiang-Zhi-Ning and Its Main Components on Cholesterol Metabolism

Table 9

The effects of chrysophanol treatment on cholesterol metabolism in liver cells (protein analysis).

Treatment	LDL-R	HMG-CoAR	ACAT2
No chrysophanol	0.23±0.08	0.25±0.04	0.36±0.12
Chrysophanol: low dose	0.38±0.11 *	0.27±0.17	0.32±0.06
Chrysophanol: medium dose	0.61±0.15 **	0.29±0.12	0.21±0.11 *
Chrysophanol: high dose	0.95±0.13 **	0.51±0.14 **	0.19±0.09 *
Atorvastatin	1.61±0.26 **	0.97±0.28 **	0.22±0.07 *

Note: comparison with no-drug control group, *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01.