The mechanisms involved with liver fat accumulation on CD diets may be different from those at work during
MCD diet feeding (11).
Not exact matches
When
fed for equal lengths of time, HFD
feeding results in 10-fold lower liver fat levels compared to what accumulates on an
MCD diet (20).
In a follow - up study, Pickens et al. showed that despite inducing the same overall level of hepatic fat accumulation, fructose was more effective than glucose at inducing hepatocellular injury in mice
fed MCD diets for 21 days (16).
Importantly, unlike human or other
diet - induced rodent models of NAFLD, rodents
fed MCD diets lose weight (due to a vastly lower caloric intake) and do not become insulin resistant (9, 19).
When both CD and
MCD diets were
fed to rats for 7 weeks, the
MCD diet group had higher scores of liver inflammation and steatosis than the CD group.