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.
Not exact matches
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).
The mechanisms involved with liver fat accumulation on CD
diets may
be different from those at work during
MCD diet feeding (11).