Dietary Flaxseed Oil Prevents Western-Type Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Apolipoprotein-E Knockout Mice

Table 4

Effect of flaxseed oil on body and liver weight in each group throughout the feeding period.

Parameters	Groups
	Control	WTD	WTD + FO
Initial body weight (g)	13.08 ± 1.48	13.00 ± 1.08	13.05 ± 0.88
Final body weight (g)	29.26 ± 0.34	32.98 ± 2.11^a	33.90 ± 1.81^a
Body weight gain (g)	16.18 ± 0.31	19.98 ± 1.74^a	20.85 ± 2.17^a
Liver weight (g/100 g body weight)	3.82 ± 0.22	5.21 ± 0.36^a	4.82 ± 0.36^a, b

Values are given as means ± SEM (). ^a versus the control group; ^b versus the WTD group.