Twenty-four adult male African green grivet monkeys were fed diets containing 42% of calories as lard or menhaden oil and 0.76 mg of cholesterol/kcal for a period of 8 months. Plasma samples from fasting animals were then taken and low density lipoproteins (LDL) were isolated by ultracentrifugation and agarose column chromatography. The LDL were analyzed chemically, and physical properties of t...

There is a general agreement between researchers that particle size of poultry feed should be between the size ranges of 600-900 µm. This study investigated the particle size of poultry feed produced in the Dormaa Municipality of Ghana. A survey was conducted on various feed mills which were made up of nine on-farm mills and five community-based commercial mills. Feed samples were collected fro...

in this study the characteristics of two different kinds of la0.6sr0.4co0.2fe0.8o3 (lscf) powders, one in-house synthesized powder by a co-precipitation method and another one purchased from fuel cell materials co. (fcm co., usa), were compared. the co-precipitated powder was prepared by using ammonium carbonate as precipitant with a nh4+/no3- molar ratio of 2 and calcination at 1000c for 1 h....

BACKGROUND Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy measures the number and size of lipoprotein particles instead of their cholesterol or triglyceride content, but its clinical utility is uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS Baseline lipoproteins were measured by NMR in 27 673 initially healthy women followed up for incident cardiovascular disease (n=1015) over an 11-year period. After adjustm...

The properties of a new synthetic LDL binding material, consisting of fragments of loosely crosslinked hydrogel, based on sulfated polyvinylalcohol are described. When incubated with 20 times its volume of plasma, this material binds up to 95% of the LDL, even from plasma with severely elevated LDL cholesterol levels (up to 20 mM). In addition a cholesterol-rich subfraction of VLDL is bound but...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of combination niacin extended-release + simvastatin (NER/S) versus atorvastatin alone on apolipoproteins and lipid fractions in a post hoc analysis from SUPREME, a study which compared the lipid effects of niacin extended-release + simvastatin and atorvastatin in patients with hyperlipidemia or mixed dyslipidemia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients (n = 137) with ...

Asian Indians have unusually high rates of coronary artery disease. Small low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle predominance (phenotype B) is associated with a fourfold atherogenic risk. This study examined the accuracy of a triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) ratio of > or =3.8 (determined from the Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines, normal triglycerides <150 mg/dl and H...

A female patient (64 years of age; body mass index, 26) had a markedly and relatively low low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) level (97 mg/dl) despite high serum total cholesterol (TC) (331 mg/dl) and triacylglyceride levels (307 mg/dl). Since the expected LDL-C was 222 mg/dl, there was a significant difference between the calculation and measurement based on direct enzyme assay. Only 3...

OBJECTIVE Associated with insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes are increased serum triglycerides, decreased HDL cholesterol, and a predominance of large VLDL, small LDL, and small HDL particles. The comparative effects of thiazolidinedione insulin sensitizers on serum lipoprotein particle concentrations and sizes in type 2 diabetes are not known. We studied the effects of pioglitazone (PIO) an...