Background: Biliary phospholipids (PL) stimulate dietary fat absorption by facilitating intraluminal lipid solubilization and by providing surface components for chylomicron assembly. Impaired hepatic PL availability induces secretion of large VLDL, but it is unclear whether chylomicron size depends on biliary PL availability. Biliary PL secretion is absent in Mdr2 -/mice, whereas it is strongl...

BACKGROUND Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is a leading cause of HIV-associated mortality. In clinical trials evaluating treatments for CM, biomarkers of early fungicidal activity (EFA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been proposed as candidate surrogate endpoints for all- cause mortality (ACM). However, there has been no systematic evaluation of the group-level or trial-level evidence for EFA a...

The present study was conducted to investigate the possible anxiolytic and sedative of an acute administration and 4-day repeated dosing of an aqueous extract of flowers of Alcea aucheri (Boiss.) Alef. (EFA)in rats subjected to the elevated plus-maze (EPM), open-field, and horizontal wire tests. All drugs were administered intraperitoneally. Phytochemical screening confirmed the presence of phe...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All G background information to assist in drafting the 2006 report. It ha The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of th attributed to the EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. T following reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Mo for Life”. For further information, please contact efareport@unesc 2006/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/28

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitor information to assist in drafting the 2003/4 report. It has not been edite and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and shou EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can be reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Rep Equality”. For further information, please contact efar...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Globa background information to assist in drafting the 2003/4 report. It ha team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the be attributed to the EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. with the following reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA G 2003/4, The Leap to Equality”. For further informa [email protected]...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All G background information to assist in drafting the 2006 report. It ha The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of th attributed to the EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. T following reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Mo for Life”. For further information, please contact efareport@unesco 2006/ED/EFA/MRT/P...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitor information to assist in drafting the 2003/4 report. It has not been edite and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and shou EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can be reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Rep Equality”. For further information, please contact efar...

Essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency exerts a striking protective effect in several animal models of autoimmune disease. We now report that EFA deprivation prevents diabetes in the BB rat, an animal model of human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. In diabetes-prone (DP)-BB rats, the incidences of spontaneous diabetes and insulitis (the pathological substrate of autoimmune diabetes) were gre...

This study was aimed at redefining criteria for essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency with the use of the direct transesterification procedure (1986. J. Lipid Res. 27: 114-120) and at determining whether a simple assay of total fatty acids (FA) is as predictive of EFA deficiency as the FA pattern from plasma, red cell, and platelet phospholipids. Fasting blood samples were taken from 163 cystic...