Abstract Safflower is currently primarily cultivated as an industrial crop for its oil, which used food and purposes, while the by-products can be animal feeding. Traditionally in Mediterranean area, it was abandoned past other oil crops, such sunflower. However, now returning to interesting due adaptability low-input cultivation practices, especially when sown autumn. The main aim of this stud...

Seven pure-culture strains of fungi cultivated by attine ants (ant-garden fungi) were isolated from locally maintained leaf-cutting ant colonies. An ant-garden fungus strain obtained from an Atta cephalotes colony, when offered to ants of the colony from which the fungus was isolated, was accepted as their own. Young fungus cultures were harvested and incorporated into the fungus garden, and cu...

Direct evidence for leptin resistance in peripheral tissues such as skeletal muscle does not exist. Therefore, we investigated the effects of different high-fat diets on lipid metabolism in isolated rat soleus muscle and specifically explored whether leptin's stimulatory effects on muscle lipid metabolism would be reduced after exposure to high-fat diets. Control (Cont, 12% kcal fat) and high-f...

BACKGROUND The Canola Oil Multicenter Intervention Trial (COMIT) was a randomized controlled crossover study designed to evaluate the effects of five diets that provided different oils and/or oil blends on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in individuals with abdominal obesity. The present objective is to report preliminary findings on plasma fatty acid profiles in volunteers with abdom...

BACKGROUND The alanine-for-threonine substitution at codon 54 (A54T polymorphism) in the fatty acid-binding protein 2 gene (FABP2) has been associated with hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance. Obese and diabetic T54 carriers have greater postprandial lipemia than do A54 homozygotes. The T54 protein isoform is also associated with increased triacylglycerol secretion in vitro. OBJECTIVE...

Dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), as compared with n-6 PUFAs, suppress cellular production of prostaglandins and tumor cell growth both in vitro and in vivo. However, the mechanism by which n-3 PUFAs suppress tumor growth is not understood. We investigated whether the suppression of tumor cell growth by dietary n-3 PUFAs is mediated through inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX). A c...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is an oil-crop suitable for semi-arid agriculture, but its physiological response to agronomic inputs has yet to be fully evaluated. The effect of fertiliser on the physiology and production of Safflower grown in pots filled with standard grade perlite inside a semi-controlled glass house was studied. Plants were initially irrigated with 20-100 ml standard hy...

background: it has been considered by researchers to study the possibility of replacing chemical food additives (synthetic antioxidants) by natural products (medicinal plants). objective: this study investigated the antioxidant properties of satureja hortensis l. essential oil (sheo) on safflower oil oxidation. methods: different assays have been used to evaluate the antioxidant activity of she...

The effect of dietary fats on gastrin in the pyloric antrum and plasma of Wistar rat was examined. Two different age groups of rats were fed 3 different diets in which fat was in the form of menhaden oil (MO), hydrogenated coconut oil (CO) and safflower oil (SO) respectively. Control groups were fed on normal laboratory diet. Each diet was isoenergetic and no group showed significant difference...

In vitro transcorneal permeation of diclofenac from oil drops was studied using freshly excised goat cornea. The maximum apparent corneal permeability coefficient (Papp) was obtained with 0.2% (w/v) diclofenac drops in sesame oil followed by safflower oil, while formulation in castor oil provided minimal Papp. The addition of benzyl alcohol, a preservative, in oil drops, increased the Papp valu...