Protective effect of vitamin E on age-related alterations of Kupffer cell energy metabolism

Table 1 Rhodamine 123 fluorescence density of mitochondria and rate of glucose utilization of Kupffer cells of different age groups (n = 5, ¯x ± s)

Group	Rhodamine 123 fluorescence density utilization of mitochondrion		Rate of glucose (nmol·h-1·106 cells-1)
	NVEG	VEG	NVEG	VEG
6	100.0 ± 4.7	100.0 ± 5.3	5.7 ± 0.6	5.6 ± 0.8
12	97.5 ± 7.1	99.4 ± 8.6	5.9 ± 0.8	6.0 ± 0.7
18	80.5 ± 6.3b	97.3 ± 6.8d	4.0 ± 0.4a	5.4 ± 0.5d
24	67.9 ± 7.4b	84.2 ± 8.7bd	3.7 ± 0.6b	4.5 ± 0.6bd

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01 vs 6 mo group；^dP < 0.01 vs non-vitamin E group (NVEG). VEG: Vitamin E pretreated group.