Type of dietary carbohydrate and liver cholesterol in rats.
Rats were fed semipurified diets containing either sucrose or corn starch (72% or 29% of their total calories). Carbohydrates were exchanged for corn oil in equicaloric amounts. After 28 days, dietary sucrose had caused significantly lower concentrations of liver cholesterol than had starch. The sucrose-induced lowering of liver cholesterol, compared to starch, was amplified by increasing the amount of fat in the diet, at the expense of the carbohydrate source.
Department of Laboratory Animal Science, State University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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D000818:Animals; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000378:metabolism*; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013395:Sucrose / Q000378:metabolism
D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D013395:Sucrose; D002784:Cholesterol