Synthetic low and high fat diets for the study of atherosclerosis in the mouse.

Diets currently used to produce atherosclerotic lesions in mice are often undefined and cause accumulation of fat in the liver and gallstone formation. Therefore, synthetic low and high fat diets of known composition were formulated in this study. A synthetic diet containing 50% sucrose, 15% cocoa b...

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Main Authors: PM Nishina, J Verstuyft, B Paigen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1990-05-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520427853