the antimicrobial effectiveness of different extracts of chicory (cichorium intybus l.) plant including methanolic, ethylic acetate, chloroformic, and aqueous extracts was evaluated by disk diffusion method. the ethylic acetate extract showed higher antibacterial activity against e. coli compared with others. then, effects of different levels of ethylic acetate extract on growth performance and...

MOTIVATION Serum lipids have been traditionally studied in the context of lipoprotein particles. Today's emerging lipidomics technologies afford sensitive detection of individual lipid molecular species, i.e. to a much greater detail than the scale of lipoproteins. However, such global serum lipidomic profiles do not inherently contain any information on where the detected lipid species are com...

Intestinal biopsies from patients having genetic disorders of lipoprotein assembly and secretion, such as abetalipoproteinemia (ABL) or Anderson's disease (AD), contain large amounts of lipids which are accumulated in the enterocytes. Determination of the intracellular sites in which the lipids accumulate and to which apolipoproteins the lipids are bound would help to identify the defects in th...

BACKGROUND Abnormalities in traditional lipids, particularly decreased HDL cholesterol and increased triglycerides, can precede the onset of hypertension. Whether lipoprotein particle size or subclass concentrations play a role in the development of hypertension is unknown. METHODS We followed 17 527 initially healthy women without baseline hypertension prospectively for 8 years. At baseline,...

The potential role of morin in the treatment of diabetes along with its antihyperlipedemic effects was studied in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced in male Wister rats by single intraperitoneal injection (i.p) of 50 mg/kg streptozotocin. Morin was administered orally at doses of 50 and 100 mg/kg for 45 days. At the end of this experiment the effect of morin on plasma gl...

Apolipoproteins are proteins associated with lipids in lipoprotein particles. They play important roles in lipoprotein metabolism, such as transport of these hydrophobic molecules in plasma aqueous medium, binding to specific receptors in cell surface to correctly direct lipids to target organs and body tissues, and activation or inhibition of enzymes involved in lipid metabolism. Apolipoprotei...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the association between apoC-III and lipoprotein-lipids in African American (AA) and Caucasian (CA) youths. The aim of this study was to investigate if plasma apoC-III level is associated with ethnicity differences in atherogenic lipoprotein-lipids between AA and CA youths. METHODS A total of 202 youths (mean age 16.1±1.3 y, range 13.8-18.9 y) consisting of 12...