When nephrosis was recognized as a clinical entity, an increased concentration of serum cholesterol was observed to be a consistent feature of the syndrome (1). Later it was found that phospholipid and triglyceride also are increased in nephrosis (2-5). The increase in serum lipids in nephrosis is usually greatest in the cases with the lowest levels of serum albumin. It has not been established...

levamisole is one of the anti-parasitic drugs that widely used in veterinary and aquatic animal medicine. previous investigation showed that levamisole has some stimulatory effect on immunity and liver metabolism. in this investigation effect of levamisole on cholesterol, triglycerol and lipoproteins as metabolic activity indicator has been studied. for this purpose 120 common carp randomly div...

100 patients with beta-thalassemia trait, comprised of 55 men and 45 women, participated in a study to measure serum lipoproteins. The results were compared with the data obtained from 100 control subjects of the same age and sex. A significantly lower level of mean serum total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, and a much higher level of HDL cholesterol were obtained in beta-thalassemia trai...

introduction: to investigate the role of borrelia infections in pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (ms) the presence of antibody against borrelia persica (the most common species of borrelia in iran) in the serum and csf of ms patients was studied. material and methods: the presence of antibodies against borrelia persica antigens was studied in the serum and csf of 50 ms patients and 30 age and...

For a number of years the lipoproteins of serum have been classified as alpha and beta types according to their electrophoretic mobility. Despite this designation very few studies of their electrophoretic properties have been reported. This is chiefly due to the fact that it is very difficult to determine exactly where the lipoproteins migrate when patterns of whole serum are obtained by the cl...

The concentration of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) in plasma or serum is much higher than the half-maximal concentration of the sphingolipid needed to stimulate its receptors. Nevertheless, the inositol phosphate response to plasma or serum mediated by Edg-3, one of the S1P receptors, which was overexpressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells, was much smaller than the response expected from the to...

The syntheses of triglyceride and its precursors were increased when liver homogenates of ketotic diabetic rats were incubated with [U-14C]-glycero 3-phosphate and cofactors. Triolein sonicates produced a concentration-dependent inhibition of the synthesis of both diglyceride and triglyceride, whereas monoolein sonicates had no effect. Rat serum very low density lipoproteins, like triolein soni...

An ultramicro electrophoretic technique for the separation of serum lipoproteins is described using agarose gel on microscope slides.The interaction between the agarose gel and lipoproteins has been reduced and the separation between beta- and pre-beta-lipoproteins has been improved over existing methods. A semiquantitative assay of the lipoproteins can be done in a densitometer. It is suggeste...

Objectives. Reduction in serum lipoproteins, especially LDL cholesterol, is a preventive approach against atherosclerosis. Bloodletting has been a recommended method to reduce serum lipoprotein concentrations. Present study was conducted to investigate the effects of wet cupping as a method of bloodletting on serum lipoproteins. In a randomized controlled trial, 47 men, 18-25 years old, without...

Serum highand low-density lipoproteins were spread between heptane and phosphate buffer. The cholesterol from both protein films became completely soluble in the heptane phase. Other neutral lipids were also found in the heptane, but phospholipids could not be detected. Shaking of whole serum or isolated lipoproteins with heptane resulted in only slight extraction of cholesterol by the fat solv...