Dietary Flaxseed Meal is More Protective Than Soy Protein Concentrate Against Hypertriglyceridemia and Steatosis of the Liver in an Animal Model of Obesity
Sam J. Bhathena, PhD,
Ali A. Ali, PhD,
Christian Haudenschild, MD,
Patricia Latham, MD,
Tedine Ranich, MD,
Ali I. Mohamed, PhD,
Carl T. Hansen, PhD and
Manuel T. Velasquez, MD
Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville (S.J.B.)
National Institutes of Health, Animal Genetic Resource, Bethesda (C.T.H.)
The Jerome Holland Laboratory, Department of Experimental Pathology, American Red Cross, Rockville (C.H.), Maryland
Department of Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC (P.L., T.R., M.T.V.)
Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia (A.I.M.)
Department of Food Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EGYPT (A.A.A.)

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Fig. 1. Photomicrographs of oil-red-O stained 4 micron sections of liver at 20x magnification illustrating periportal lipid accumulation in lean SHR/N-cp rats fed casein (A), soy protein (B) or flaxseed meal (C), and in obese SHR/N-cp rats fed casein (D), soy protein (E) or flaxseed meal (F).
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