Effects of low fat and babassu fat diets on nutritional status in obstructive cholestasis in young rats.

Purpose: To test the effects of a low fat diet compared with a babassu fat diet on nutritional status in obstructive cholestasis in young rats.

Methods: We submitted 40 rats in 4 groups of 10 animals each from P21 (21st postnatal day) to P49 to two of the following treatments: bile duct ligation or sham operation and low fat diet (corn oil supplying 4.5% of the total amount of energy) or babassu fat diet (this fat supplying 32.