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Table 4

Bone content, plasma calcium, and fecal lipids.

Group	CD^1	AD^2	LD^3
Bone contents
Right femur weight (dry) (mg)	57.4 ± 6.23	53.0 ± 7.85	56.1 ± 5.56
Right femur weight (defatted) (mg)	53.6 ± 6.0	49.3 ± 6.76	52.3 ± 5.30
Ash (%)	53.0 ± 1.44^a	50.9 ± 2.13^b	54.0 ± 2.67^a
Calcium (mg/g)	13.3 ± 0.85	12.7 ± 1.07	13.0 ± 0.77
Phosphorus (mg/g)	15.7 ± 1.23	14.6 ± 1.34	15.4 ± 0.92
Plasma calcium (mg/g)	3.09 ± 0.58	4.06 ± 0.62	3.54 ± 1.46
Fecal lipids
Total fat (mg/g)	48.2 ± 9.30^a	29.8 ± 10.9^b	39.9 ± 9.77^ab
Bile acid (μg/g)	3.54 ± 0.99^a	2.38 ± 0.56^b	3.91 ± 0.74^a
Total cholesterol (mg/g)	1.87 ± 0.43	1.89 ± 0.56	1.90 ± 0.41

¹CD, control diet; ²AD, alcohol diet; ³LD, Lb. paracasei-containing alcohol diet. Values represent mean ±SD, n = 8. Values not sharing a common superscript letter are significantly different at .