Time Course of the Development of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty Rat

Table 2

Biochemical analyses of serum obtained from the LETO and OLETF rats at 50 weeks of age.

	LETO	OLETF
Insulin (uIU/mL)	6.16 ± 1.61	6.32 ± 0.39
Alanine aminotransferase (U/L)	44.20 ± 4.66	43.60 ± 9.02
Aspartate aminotransferase (U/L)	74.20 ± 14.34	122.20 ± 8.23**
Free fatty acid (µEq/L)	712.00 ± 25.11	840.80 ± 83.05*

OLETF: Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty rats; LETO: Long-Evans Tokushima rats. All data are expressed as means ± SE. ^∗𝑃<0.05, ^∗∗𝑃<0.01 compared with LETO rats (𝑛=5).