Background: Non-medical therapy is needed to reduce blood lipid levels and prevent atherosclerosis. Foods that contain Isoflavones can improve profiles in the blood.Aim: To determine effect of soya genistein supplementation various doses on total cholesterol, Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), High (HDL), Triglycerides male Sprague-Dawley rats.Methods: 35 rats aged 6-8 weeks were divided into 7 gro...

Rather early in studies on influenza immunization in animals as well as in man, it was realized that immunizing effect, as reflected in antibody response induced by the vaccines employed, was limited and of relatively short duration. For these reasons (1) a variety of methods were explored for enhancing and prolonging the protective effect induced by vaccination (2-7). None, however, provided s...

objective: patients with metabolic syndrome are prone to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. regarding the importance of nutritional factors in management of metabolic syndrome, this study was designed to evaluate the effects of dark chocolate consumption on serum lipid profile in patients with metabolic syndrome. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 114 patients with meta...

Profiling Live Kidney Donors in America: Cause for Optimism and for Concern Peter P. Reese* and John J. Friedewald *Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Comprehensive Transplant Center and Division of Nep...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the alterations in the lipid profile, plasma alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, total and direct bilirubin levels of neonatal calves with diarrhea. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 25 calves with diarrhea as experimental group and 10 healthy calves as control group, 1-30 days old, were enrolled in the study. Blood samples were collected from jugula...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the association between low levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and risk of intraparenchymal hemorrhage. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 30 802 men and 60 417 women, 40 to 79 years of age with no history of stroke or coronary heart disease, completed a baseline risk factor survey in 1993 under the auspices of the Ibaraki Prefectural Health S...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between lipid profiles and Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology at the population level is unclear. We searched for evidence of AD-related pathologic risk of abnormal lipid metabolism. METHODS This study included brain specimens from a series of 147 autopsies performed between 1998 and 2003 of residents in Hisayama town, Japan (76 men and 71 women), who underwent clinic...

The search for plasma lipoproteins began at the turn of the century. It was not until 1949 that a meeting of the Faraday Society celebrated the separation of the alpha and beta lipoproteins. At that moment, ultracentrifugists in Berkeley were already busily converting "alpha" to high density lipoprotein and "beta" to low density lipoprotein; the modern era of lipoproteins had begun. Over the su...