Table 3: Serum metabolites and liver damage enzyme activity in rats fed a reference diet (RD), sucrose-rich diet (SRD) or SRD with cannabis oil (SRD+Ca).

 

RD

SRD

SRD+Ca

Glucose (mM)

7.71 ± 0.11a

7.84 ± 0.07a

7.62 ± 0.22a

Triglyceride (mM)

1.32 ± 0.09b

3.08 ± 0.16a

1.46 ± 0.11b

Cholesterol (mM)

2.07 ± 0.07b

2.63 ± 0.06a

2.20 ± 0.11b

Uric acid (mM)

49.20 ± 5.77c

122.22 ± 8.83a

72.49 ± 4.19b

AST (U/L)

19.56 ± 0.75b

27.31 ± 0.82a

21.54 ± 1.35b

ALT (U/L)

20.93 ± 1.39b

29.92 ± 0.73a

21.57 ± 1.97b

AP (U/L)

672.42 ± 54.61c

1183.01 ± 25.07a

1032.03 ± 11.95b

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM, n=6. Values in a line that do not share the same superscript letter are significantly different (P < 0.05) when one variable at a time was compared by one-way ANOVA followed by Newman-Keuls´ test.