Table 1 Serum lipids in dams (gestation week 2) and newly weaned offspring (postnatal day 21) from mothers fed a chow diet, the chow diet supplemented with cholesterol (CH), or cholesterol and phytosterol (CH/PS) during gestation and lactation

3.73 ± 0.51^a

6.36 ± 1.23^b

4.23 ± 0.34^a

0.61 ± 0.02^a

0.78 ± 0.09^b

0.60 ± 0.02^a

10.9 ± 0.4^a

12.5 ± 0.5^b

9.4 ± 0.3^c

2.6 ± 0.1^a

3.62 ± 0.1^b

1.88 ± 0.1^c

0.60 ± 0.0^a

0.67 ± 0.1^a

0.53 ± 0.0^a

1.13 ± 0.0^a

2.09 ± 0.4^b

1.22 ± 0.1^a

378.1 ± 27.7^a

676.3 ± 114.0^b

442.5 ± 28.5^a

12.3 ± 0.5^a

16.3 ± 1.6^b

11.5 ± 0.5^a

217.9 ± 9.9^a

292.4 ± 9.2^b

201.3 ± 6.7^a