Objective The lipid composition of a mammal’s spermatozoa and seminal plasma vary in both structure and function. Evidence exists to suggest that dietary supplementation with the appropriate polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) affects spermatogenesis, semen quality and sperm motility. Therefore, this study has been conducted to evaluate the correlations between serum lipid profile and histologi...

Objectives. Reduction in serum lipoproteins, especially LDL cholesterol, is a preventive approach against atherosclerosis. Bloodletting has been a recommended method to reduce serum lipoprotein concentrations. Present study was conducted to investigate the effects of wet cupping as a method of bloodletting on serum lipoproteins. In a randomized controlled trial, 47 men, 18-25 years old, without...

Serum lipid and lipoprotein alterations in nephrosis were discussed in detail in a previous report (1). It was found that there were qualitative as well as quantitative differences in lipoproteins from one patient to another. Despite the differences in lipoprotein pattern, concentrations of serum cholesterol and phospholipids were related inversely to concentrations of serum albumin in a fairly...

High serum cholesterol is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), and most cholesterol in serum circulates with low density lipoproteins (LDLs). These lipoproteins are macromolecular complexes containing a core of nonpolar lipids — mainly cholesterol ester—and a surface coat of unesterified cholesterol, phospholipids, and apolipoprotein (apo) B-100. Many investigators believe that...

background: preliminary clinical trials showed that ginger improved lipid profile in type 2 diabetes patients (t2d). this trial was carried out to determine the effect of ginger on blood lipid and lipoproteins in t2d. methods: this is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on 88 t2d conducted in. the patients were randomly divided into two groups of ginger (gg) and placebo (pg), t...

High serum cholesterol is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), and most cholesterol in serum circulates with low density lipoproteins (LDLs). These lipoproteins are macromolecular complexes containing a core of nonpolar lipids — mainly cholesterol ester—and a surface coat of unesterified cholesterol, phospholipids, and apolipoprotein (apo) B-100. Many investigators believe that...

There is at present a great deal of interest in factors determining the levels of serum lipids because of their possible relation to atherosclerosis. Since the serum lipids circulate only in the form of lipid-protein complexes, the mechanism of production of these complexes and their delivery into and removal from the serum must be understood before there is a sound basis for defining the homeo...

An attempt is being made to determine the relation of the serum lipids to the progression of human atherosclerosis. The serum lipids are estimated serially during life and are compared with the degree of atherosclerosis found post mortem. The findings in the first 50 fatalities in the series of 800 patients are reported. The results make a poor case for the effect of derangements of the serum l...

introduction: estrogen is one of the female sex hormones that in addition to its reproductive role, has favorable fects on the metabolism of blood lipids and lipoproteins and by this way decreases the coronary heart disease. n the other hand, phytoestrogens are phytochemical substances that have effects like estrogens. isoflavones, hich the most important of them is genistein, are the most comm...