Bioavailability of Oil-Based and β-Lactoglobulin-Complexed Vitamin A in a Rat Model

Table 5

Liver and serum vitamin A after the 2-week repletion in experiment 2.

Parameters/group	A/N	D/N	D/P	D/O	D/N/O
Treatment description^1	+Diet/NFM	−Diet/NFM	−Diet/PFM	−Diet/OFM	−Diet/NFM : OFM; (2 : 1, v/v)
Serum retinol^2 (𝜇g/mL)	0.40 ± 0.24	0.20 ± 0.08	0.29 ± 0.16	0.41 ± 0.23	0.30 ± 0.23
Liver retinol (𝜇g/g)	1.14 ± 0.09^a	0^c	0.01 ± 0.02^c	0.79 ± 0.53^b	0.15 ± 0.21^c
Liver retinyl palmitate (𝜇g/g)	15.56 ± 3.46^a	1.08 ± 0.46^b	1.23 ± 0.80^b	11.40 ± 4.76^a	0.99 ± 0.69^b

 ¹See abbreviations.
²Data are shown as mean ± SD; 𝑁 = 4 in the A/N group. 𝑁 = 5 in the other groups. Means in a row without common superscript letters are significantly different (𝑃 < 0.05).