The effect of two different levels of dietary cholesterol (0.16 mg/Kcal and 0.79 mg/cal) on the composition of thoracic lymph duct lipoproteins was studied in two species of nonhuman primates, Ceropithecus aethiops (African green monkey) and Macaca fascicularis (cynomolgus monkey). Diet was infused intraduodenally at a constant rate to facilitate comparisons among animals. The higher level of d...

Background. The role of lipoprotein disturbances in the development of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) has not been sufficiently clarified. Methods and Results. The relations among concentrations of intermediate density lipoproteins (IDL), apoprotein (apo) B, apo E, and other lipoproteins were studied in 102 men with PVD and 100 healthy men who formed the control group. Patients with PVD had ...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of oleic acid and insulin on the secretion of lipoproteins by HepG2 cells grown in minimum essential medium. Triglycerides were the major neutral lipid (57% of total) and apoB was the predominant apolipoprotein (56% of total) secreted by these cells. The addition of oleate resulted in a two-fold increase in the concentration of neutral lipids bu...

BACKGROUND People with renal disease develop a dyslipidemia that contributes to progression of renal injury and development of cardiovascular disease. Lipoproteins in dogs with renal disease have not been investigated. HYPOTHESIS Dogs with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have dyslipidemia characterized by increased lower density lipoproteins and decreased high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). The de...

Changes of lipoprotein secretion and composition in response to CCl4 treatment were studied in monolayer cultures of rat primary hepatocytes. (1) CCl4 decreased secretion of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) by about 85%, while high density lipoprotein (HDL) secretion was less affected (about 40%). The effect was concentration-dependent. (2) CCl4 significantly inhibited secretion of VLDL- an...

Apolipoproteins C-I1 (apoC-11) and C-111 (apoC-111) are distributed among all the major lipoprotein classes, particularly very low density (VLDL) and high density lipoproteins (HDL). We have determined concentrations of apoC-I1 and apoC-111 in VLDL and HDL in subjects with a wide range of VLDL triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels, and correlated these levels with fractional catabolic rates (...

Lipoproteins in blood plasma have been quantified and characterized in homozygous Watanabe-heritable hyperlipidemic (WHHL) rabbits, an animal model of human familial hypercholesterolemia. Like homozygous human hypercholesterolemics, WHHL rabbits have a severe deficiency of low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors, a prolonged residence time for LDL, and an increased absolute rate of LDL cataboli...

Beta-migrating very low density lipoproteins (R-VLDL) and chemically modified low density lipoproteins (LDL), labeled with the fluorescent probe 3,3-dioctadecylindocarbocyanine (Dil), were used to determine whether foam cells from atherosclerotic lesions have lipoprotein receptors similar to those of macrophages. The advantage of the Dil probe is that it produces a brilliant fluorescence due to...

The previously described procedure of direct determination of LDL-cholesterol after selective extraction of VLDL and HDL with polycations and a polycation-exchange resin has been improved by using dodecoylated poly(ethyleneimine) instead of poly(ethyleneimine). The acyl derivative has a higher affinity for lipoproteins. Disc-electrophoretic patterns of lipoproteins separated by this procedure c...

Atherosclerosis is a focal disease of the arterial wall that leads to cardiovascular disease (CVD), the biggest cause of morbidity and mortality in Western societies. Atheroscle-rosis is a complex, chronic, progressive disease that affects large and medium-sized arteries. Atherosclerotic lesions are promoted by low-density lipoproteins and form from accumulation of fatty substances, cholesterol...