The morphology of red blood cells was studied in 30 patients with severe liver cirrhosis, in 10 patients with extrahepatic jaundice, and in 10 control subjects. In all the patients with extrahepatic jaundice more than 30% of red blood cells were target cells with increased resistance to osmotic lysis. In 12 patients with liver cirrhosis more than 30% of red blood cells were spur cells. The chol...

Background: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an emerging disease belonging to the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum, which may progress to fibrosis and thereby to cirrhosis of the liver. Currently, no definitive and effective treatment strategies have been identified to treat NASH. Objective: To study the effect of pioglitazone, quercetin, and hydroxy citric acid on lipi...

Hypercholesterolemia is a metabolic disorder of lipoproteins which characterized by high total cholesterol levels. Papaya and Jicama juice contains vitamin C. This benefit to regulate the concentration lipid plasma inhibits micelles forming, binding bile through feces produces short chain fatty acid that can reduce synthesis. study aimed determined effect Juice decreased level hypercholesterole...

background: nigella sativa ( n. sativa ) has been used in traditional medicine and several studies have been performed in the last decades to reveal the effects of it on different medical disorders such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and obesity. we evaluated the effects of n. sativa supplementation on lipid profiles, glycemic control, blood pressure (bp), and some anthropometric indi...

100 patients with beta-thalassemia trait, comprised of 55 men and 45 women, participated in a study to measure serum lipoproteins. The results were compared with the data obtained from 100 control subjects of the same age and sex. A significantly lower level of mean serum total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, and a much higher level of HDL cholesterol were obtained in beta-thalassemia trai...

A specific, accurate, and sensitive double antibody radioimmunoassay for measuring human apolipoprotein (apo) C-111 has been developed. Anti-apoC-111, developed in rabbits cross-reacted completely with apoC-111 subspecies. Analytical isoelectric focusing of delipidated triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRL) was done to assess the percentage of total apoC-111 mass comprised by apoC-HI,, C-IIIl, an...

Lipoproteins are important components of the mycobacterial cell envelope due to their function in cell wall homeostasis and bacterial virulence. They are post-translationally modified with lipid- and glycosyl-residues in various species and interference with acylation or glycosylation leads to reduced growth and attenuated virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lipoproteins are also expressed...

Like rat C apolipoproteins, each of the C apolipoproteins from human blood plasma (C-I, C-11, C-111-1, and C111-2) bound to small chylomicrons from mesenteric lymph of estradiol-treated rats and inhibited their uptake by the isolated perfused rat liver. This inhibitory effect of the C apolipoproteins was independent of apolipoprotein E, which is present only in trace amounts in these chylomicro...

OBJECTIVE In order to identify putative biomarkers in lipoprotein, we compared lipid and lipoprotein properties between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and control with similar age. METHODS We analyzed four classes of lipoproteins (VLDL, LDL, HDL2, HDL3) from both male (n = 8, 69±4 year-old) and female (n = 25, 53±7 year-old) rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients as well as controls with simi...