Seven healthy volunteers and 3 hospitalized patients were given the same diet for 6 days. The mean intake of cholesterol was 359 mg/day. There was a large difference in the fecal amount of cholesterol and coprostanol among the subjects. The ratio of coprostanol/cholesterol ranged from 0.01 to 4.27. The subjects whose feces contained smaller amount of coprostanol excreted larger amounts of beta-...

Rats were fed a hypercholesterolemic diet (5% lard, 0.5% cholesterol, and 0.25% sodium cholate) containing 5% of dietary phospholipid as safflower phospholipid (SAP), soybean phospholipid (SOP), or egg yolk phospholipid (EGP), or 5% of soybean oil (SO) as a control for 4 weeks. The concentrations of plasma cholesterol were significantly higher in rats fed the EGP diet than those of the other di...

Background: The present study was designed to evaluate Ciprofloxacin residue and their impact on some biomolecules (albumin, total protein and cholesterol) in eggs of laying hens after oral administration. For that purpose, One group (A) of laying hens (n = 20) were orally administered 10 mg⁄kg ciprofloxacin for five consecutive days. The second group (n = 10) was untreated controls. Eggs were ...