High Cholesterol Diet-Induced Changes in Oxysterol and Scavenger Receptor Levels in Heart Tissue

Table 1

Effect of 2% cholesterol diet and α-tocopherol supplementation on serum cholesterol and α-tocopherol levels following eight weeks.

	Serum cholesterol levels (mg/dL)	Serum α-tocopherol levels (μg/mL)
Control	52.0 ± 9.8	2.8 ± 1.3
Cholesterol	2027.2 ± 860.4	24.5 ± 3.4
Cholesterol + α-tocopherol	2341.4 ± 552.5	21.1 ± 4.7
α-Tocopherol	60.2 ± 23.9	17.3 ± 10.3

Data are expressed as the mean ± SD. versus the control group ().