Abstract
Four-week-old male Wister Rats were fed a diet containing 50% of fat up to the age of 9 weeks and 6 months, respectively. The control group received a diet with 3% of fat. The fat consisted of lard (1/3) and sunflower oil (2/3). Serum cholesterol was determined according to the standard method 1 of the DAB 7 (German Pharmacopoeia); liver cholesterol was estimated by the method of Naito and Lewis. As compared to the control animals, the 9-week-old rats on the high-fat diet showed serum cholesterol values (total, free and esterified cholesterol) which were significantly lower. There was no difference in serum cholesterol level between the 6-month-old rats on the high-fat diet and the control animals. In contrast to this, the liver cholesterol levels of the 9-week-old and the 6-month-old rats on the high-fat diet were significantly increased. In both age-groups the ratio of free cholesterol to esterified cholesterol was changed in favour of the esterified cholesterol. The present results confirm the findings reported in the literature, except for the unchanged serum cholesterol values observed by the authors in the long-time dietary experiment.
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