The effect on the plasma cholesterol esters of diets rich in either carbohydrate, chocolate, or safflower oil was studied sequentially in two men. The changes in the cholesterol esters of the major plasma lipoproteins were studied by measuring (a) the distribution of fatty acids in the esters and (b) the distribution of radioactivity among the esters after the administration of cholesterol-4-(1...

BACKGROUND The safflower, Carthamus tinctorius L., is a worldwide oil crop, and its flowers, which have a high flavonoid content, are an important medicinal resource against cardiovascular disease in traditional medicine. Because the safflower has a large and complex genome, the development of its genomic resources has been delayed. Second-generation Illumina sequencing is now an efficient rout...

Safflower is one of the economically important oil plants. There are some studies on safflower, but none its seed properties. This study was carried out in Biosystem Engineering laboratories Faculty Agriculture Bingöl University 2021. The seeds four different proprietary safflower cultivars were randomly sampled, and their physical properties examined under two separate groups, that is, control...

Plant oils have been utilized for a variety of purposes throughout history, with their integration into foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products. They are now being increasingly recognized for their effects on both skin diseases and the restoration of cutaneous homeostasis. This article briefly reviews the available data on biological influences of topical skin applications of some plant o...

The effects of oral administration of linoleic- and gamma-linolenic-acid-rich oils on the clinical and histopathological manifestations of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) were investigated in Lewis rats 7 d post-inoculation. gamma-Linolenic-acid-rich fungal (Mucor javanicus) oil at 500 mg/kg body weight abrogated clinical and histological signs of EAE although at doses of 200 an...

This study evaluated the effect of a fat blend containing long-chain (LC) n-3 PUFA on bone mineral density (BMD) and bone metabolism in gonad-intact middle-aged male rats (12 months old, n 28). Seven rats were killed on day 0 of dietary intervention to determine the baseline BMD. The remaining rats (seven per group) were fed a diet with one of the following dietary lipid treatments (g/kg diet):...

Intraperitoneal injection of trace amounts of corn oil prior to and following the injection of 40-50 mg of tissue from hepatoma 7777 or 7800 into the thigh of adult male Buffalo rats resulted in a marked decrease in the growth rate of both tumors. Exhaustive extraction of the corn oil with water indicated that the active component was not water soluble. Similar injections of safflower oil or is...

Female B/W mice spontaneously develop an autoimmune disease that is similar to systemic lupus erythematosus. Antibodies to doublestranded DNA (dsDNA) and antinuclear antibodies develop in aging animals; death from immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis occurs from 8 to 12 mo of age. It has been reported that prostaglandin (PG)E(1) treatment of such mice prolongs survival. In the present stu...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a multipurpose crop that can grow in arid and semi-arid environments because of its tolerance to drought stress, salinity, lower higher temperatures. Despite safflower’s characteristic, stress negatively impact growth development. Drought reduces plant height biomass, leaf chlorophyll content area, photosynthesis rate, yield components, oil yield, fatty ac...

According to the importance and diversity of Chenopodium album, Cynodon dactylon and Amaranthus retroflexus in safflower fields and significant role of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) as an oil seed, an experiment was conducted using CRD based factorial design with three replications to study the allelopathic effects of root and shoot extracts of these weeds on germination and early growth ...