The Nutrients’ Special Issue “From dietary cholesterol to blood cholesterol” aims supply existing knowledge and novel new research data about human (C) fluxes [...]

background: hypercholesterolemia is one of the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. it affects general health and increases cardiovascular mortality rate. diet with high cholesterol increases ldl that, inturn, decrease ldl receptors activity in liver. oxidation of vessel wall lipoproteins increases development of atherosclerosis. several evidences suggest that antioxidants consumption decre...

to evaluate the concentrations of serum lipids and lipoproteins and their correlations together and withthyroid hormones in gray necked ostrich (struthio camelus), the serum levels of cholesterol, triglyceride,total lipids, very low density lipoproteins (vldl-cholesterol), low density lipoproteins (ldl-cholesterol)and high density lipoproteins (hdl-cholesterol) and their correlations with tri-i...

to evaluate the effects of season, sex and age on serum concentrations of thyroid hormones, cholesterol and triglyceride, and their correlations together in dromedarian camels, these parameters were measured in 180 clinically healthy dromedary camels. no significant difference was detected for the measured serum parameters between the two sexes and among the different age groups of camels and n...