Type V hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) is characterized clinically by hepatosplenomegaly, occasional eruptive xanthomas, and an increased incidence of pancreatitis. These patients have striking hypertriglyceridemia due to increased plasma chylomicron and very low density lipoprotein concentrations in the fasting state, without a deficiency of lipoprotein lipase or its activator protein, apolipoprote...

Twenty-four male weanling rats were randomly divided into two treatment groups, namely a copper-adequate (8 mg Cu/kg diet) or a copper-deficient (0.85 mg Cu/kg diet) group. Feed and distilled, deionized water were provided ad libitum. After 7 weeks, plasma lipid, protein and apolipoprotein concentrations of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and subfractions of HDL were determined. Significant ele...

Apoprotein (apo) C-I, C-II, and C-III were measured in plasma from 35 white American non-diabetic subjects. The mean concentrations (mg/L) in plasma from normolipidemic and hypertriglyceridemic subjects, respectively, were apo C-I, 78 and 311; apo C-II, 37 and 200; and apo C-III, 98 and 529. These concentrations were strongly correlated with the concentrations of plasma triglyceride (TG). We al...

aim and background: major depressive disorder (mdd) is known to play a major role in the onset of coronary artery disease (cad). several studies demonstrated an association between dyslipidemia and mdd. the present study aimed to investigate the mean serum lipoproteins and apolipoprotein level in patients with mdd. method and materials: thirty-two patients, who fully met the fourth diagnostic a...

BACKGROUND Although there is considerable interest in the postprandial events involved in the absorption of dietary fats and the subsequent metabolism of diet-derived triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins, little is known about the effects of meal fatty acids on the composition of these particles. OBJECTIVE We examined the effect of meal fatty acids on the lipid and apolipoprotein contents of tri...

Deficiency of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) in humans is characterized by markedly elevated plasma concentrations ofHDL cholesterol and apoA-I. To assess the metabolism ofHDL apolipoproteins in CETP deficiency, in vivo apolipoprotein kinetic studies were performed using endogenous and exogenous labeling techniques in two unrelated homozygotes with CETP deficiency, one heterozygo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Following a 2009 US Food and Drug Administration guidance, a new patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument was developed to support end points in multinational clinical trials assessing irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) symptom severity. Our objective was to assess the translatability of the IBS-D PRO instrument into ten languages, and subsequently perform ...

OBJECTIVE The present study aims to investigate the relationship between genetic polymorphisms in HTR3A and HTR3E and diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS) in a Chinese population. METHODS We enrolled 500 D-IBS patients and 500 age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects to detect the genotypes in HTR3A and HTR3B gene by using of PCR-RFLP method. RESULTS There were signifi...

BACKGROUND The results of previous studies assessing the association between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism of serotonin transporter gene and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are inconsistent. The aim of this study was to clarify the association between the 5-HTTLPR mutation and the presence of IBS and its subtypes with a meta-analysis of 25 studies. METHODS A thorough search for case-control studie...