Abstract   Background: obesity is directly related to dyslipidemia which contributes significantly   to the risk of coronary heart disease, a major cardiovascular disease and a serious   health problem. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of low calorie   diet and those of lovastatin on serum lipoproteins, apo B, homocysteine, and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in hyperlipidemi...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of soy isoflavones on growth, meat quality, and carcass traits of growing-finishing pigs. In Exp. 1, 36 barrows (initial and final BW, 26 and 113 kg, respectively) were used and each treatment was replicated four times with three pigs each. The dietary treatments were 1) corn-soybean meal (C-SBM), 2) corn-soy protein concentrate (low isofla...

LDL particle size is dependent on both genetic factors and environmental factors such as dietary fat composition. The apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype is a major genetic determinant of LDL size. Thus, the aim of this work was to study whether the apoE genotype interacts with the quantity and quality of dietary fat, modifying LDL size in young healthy subjects. Healthy subjects (n = 84; 66 apoE ...

background: the present clinical trial study aims at investigating the effect of daily energy intake in 6 isocaloric meals in comparison with the current meal pattern (3 meals and 2 small snacks per day) on type 2 diabetes risk markers in diabetes during 3-month period. methods: eighty four type 2 diabetes patients were randomly divided into 6 isocaloric meal diet or a balanced diet (3 meals an...

the main objective of this study was to elucidate the effect of short- term exposure of japanese quail eggs to acute high incubation temperature on embryonic development and on the ability of post- hatched chicks to cope with subsequent heat stress conditions during the growing period. a total of 998 japanese quail eggs were divided into two groups, the first group (470 eggs) was maintained at ...

Background: Obesity increases the likelihood of various diseases, particularly heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer and infertility and dub fertility. Some studies have associated the body mass index (BMI) with reproductive parameters in men, showing that increased BMI is related to poor semen quality, decreased sperm concentration, decreased normal-m...

Metabolism of acetate from colonic fermentation was investigated in dogs. Beagle dogs (n = 9) were fed a control diet for 17 d followed by a 3% inulin-enriched diet (from chicory) for 4 and 21 d. On 3 occasions, the dogs were administered simultaneously infusions of [1-(13)C]acetate i.v. and [1,2-(13)C(2)]acetate intrarectally. Peripheral acetate concentration and turnover did not change over t...

abstract   background: obesity is directly related to dyslipidemia which contributes significantly to the risk of coronary heart disease, a major cardiovascular disease and a serious health problem. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of low calorie diet and those of lovastatin on serum lipoproteins, apo b, homocysteine, and total antioxidant capacity (tac) in hyperlipidemic obese ...

lated bacteriophages f2 and MS2. Personal communications from W. Konigsberg and H. FraenkelConrat. 4Goldthwait, D. A., and G. R. Greenberg, in Methods in Enzymology, ed. S. P. Colowick and N. 0. Kaplan (New York: Academic Press, 1955), vol. 2, p. 516. 6 Rabinowitz, J. C., in The Enzymes, ed. P. D. Boyer, H. Lardy, and K. Myrback (New York: Academic Press, 1960), vol. 2, p. 185. 6lHuennekens, F....

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of long chain fatty acids (C > or = 20 LCP) of the n-3 series, vitamin E and vitamin C on the antioxidant capacity of rabbit buck and on semen characteristics. Fifty male rabbits at 30 days were randomly assigned to five different diets: Control (50 mg x kg(-1) diet alpha-tocopheryl acetate), Vitamin E (200 mg x kg(-...