Steatosis recovery after treatment with a balanced sunflower or olive oil-based diet: Involvement of perisinusoidal stellate cells

Table 1 Body weight and liver weight (mean±SD)

	Body weight (g)	Liver weight (g)
HL-O	307.44±18.61	14.66±0.36
NL-O	255.33±23.58	12.05±0.87a
HL-S	310.55±16.48
NL-S	207.16±32.83a	14.85±0.41

HL-O, high-lipidic olive oil; NL-O, normal-lipidic olive oil; HL-S, high-lipidic sunflower oil; NL-S, normal-lipidic sunflower oil.

^aP<0.05 vs HL-S, P<0.02 vs NL-O.

Table 2 Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels (mean±SD)

	ALT (IU/L)	AST (IU/L)
HL-O	39±1.41	83.50±12.02
NL-O	27±5.661	60±2.83a
HL-S	52±1.41	75±4.24
NL-S	26±14.14b	57.50±16.26

HL-O, high-lipidic olive oil; NL-O, normal-lipidic olive oil; HL-S, high-lipidic sunflower oil; NL-S, normal-lipidic sunflower oil.

^aP<0.05,

¹P<0.02 vs HL-S,

^bP<0.01 vs HL-O.