Hepatoprotective and Antioxidant Activities of Oil from Baru Almonds (Dipteryx alata Vog.) in a Preclinical Model of Lipotoxicity and Dyslipidemia

Table 3

Biochemical parameters of rats treated with lipids emulsion and baru oil.

Parameters (mg/dL)	Groups
	C	BO	HC	HC-BO
TC	77.9 ± 10.9^a	77.7 ± 11.9^a	137.4 ± 19.5^b	129.2 ± 22.6^b
Non-HDL-C	33.0 ± 8.5^a	35.7± 9.4^a	104.4 ± 17.4^b	96.4 ± 21.0^b
HDL cholesterol	44.9 ± 3.2^a	42.0 ± 2.8^a	32.8 ± 4.4^b	31.8 ± 5.0^b
Triacylglycerols	77.8 ± 15.4^a	70.0 ± 20.1^a	64.1 ± 18.5^a	62.3 ± 21.8^a
Glycemia	160.8 ± 14.9^a	156.4 ± 10.2^a	169.9 ± 16.2^a	169.1 ± 14.8^a
ALT (U/L)	119.7 ± 20.1^a	120.5 ± 13.1^a	116.2 ± 13.7^a	112.1 ± 31.9^a
AST (U/L)	36.2 ± 9.5^a	35.6 ± 5.3^a	37.6 ± 6.1^a	37.1 ± 7.7^a
ALP (U/L)	77.1 ± 17.2^a	80.8 ± 14.0^a	95.1 ± 15.6^a	83.3 ± 10.6^a
Albumin (g/dL)	3.04 ± 0.1^a	2.96 ± 0.1^a	3.09 ± 0.1^a	2.98 ± 0.2^a

TC, Total cholesterol; Non-HDL-C, non-HDL cholesterol; ALT, Alanine aminotransferase; AST, Aspartate aminotransferase; ALP, Alkaline phosphatase. Control (C), baru oil (BO), hypercholesterolemic (HC) and hypercholesterolemic + baru oil (HC-BO). Data are presented as the means ± SEM. Values with different superscript letters in the same row are significantly different (p < 0.05), ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test.