Attenuated Cardiac Mitochondrial-Dependent Apoptotic Effects by Li-Fu Formula in Hamsters Fed with a Hypercholesterol Diet

Table 1

Formulation and calculated composition of experimental diets.

Ingredients (% wt/wt)	Control	Cholesterol	Li-Fu formula
Chow diet, (Rodent 5001)	99.5	99.3	97.3
Soybean oil	0.5	0.5	0.5
Cholesterol	0	0.2	0.2
Li-Fu formula
Celery(a)	0	0	0.05
Black fungus(b)	0	0	0.646
Mushroom(c)	0	0	0.848
Saliva miltiorrhiza	0	0	0.152
Crataegi cuneata	0	0	0.152
A. stragali radix	0	0	0.152

(a)Celery is also known as Apium graveolens; (b)Black fungus indicates Wood ear, or pinyin: mù ěr, lit. “wood ear" or “tree ear" are commonly sold in Asian markets as dietary supplement; (c)The standard for the name “mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.