Remnants produced from rat chylomicrons in hepatectomized rats or from human chylomicrons by incubation in postheparin plasma contained much less C-apolipoproteins, but more lysophosphatidylcholine than the parent chylomicrons. A phospholipid-triglyceride emulsion absorbed C-apolipoproteins during incubation in serum, yet not in postheparin plasma, which led to lipid-hydrolysis and increased in...

Variation in apolipoprotein (apo)E genotypes predicts variation in plasma cholesterol and apoB; however, the context-dependent associations between high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, apoA-I, triglycerides, and lipoprotein[a] (Lp[a]) and this polymorphism remain unsettled. We genotyped 5,025 women and 4,035 men sampled to represent a white general population in the age range 20 to 80+ y...

Pasternak RC, Smith SC Jr, Stone NJ. Implications of recent clinical trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;44:720–732. 30. McQueen MJ, Hawken S, Wang X, Ounpuu S, Sniderman A, Probstfield J, Steyn K, Sanderson JE, Hasani M, Volkova E, Kazmi K, Yusuf S. Lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins as risk markers of myocar...

The effects of dexamethasone (a synthetic glucocorticoid) and insulin on the secretion of very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) were investigated. Rat hepatocytes in monolayer culture were preincubated for 15 h in the presence or absence of combinations of 100 nM-dexamethasone and 2 nM-, 10 nM- or 50 nM-insulin. Dexamethasone increased [3H]oleate incorporation i...

Atherosclerosis is distinguished by the accumulation of lipoprotein lipid within the arterial wall. An ionic interaction of positively charged regions of apolipoprotein (apo) B with matrix proteins, including proteoglycans, collagen, and fibronectin, is thought to initiate this process. Proteoglycans are complex glycoproteins containing highly negatively charged carbohydrate chains. These prote...

BACKGROUND Paraoxonase (PON1) associated with HDL can be regarded as a cardio- and vasoprotective enzyme. However, because HDL is not a homogeneous fraction, it is important to investigate in which subgroups of HDL active PON1 is located. It would also be useful to determine density profiles of the HDL apolipoproteins (Apo) E and J. METHODS We investigated the density range of HDL (rho = 1.06...

ApoE phenotypes were determined in 615 unrelated Finnish individuals. The apoE gene frequencies observed (epsilon 2, 0.041; epsilon 3, 0.733; epsilon 4, 0.227) differ significantly from those in other populations. The frequency of the allele epsilon 2 was lower and that of epsilon 4 higher than in all other studied populations. Plasma lipids and apolipoproteins A-I, A-II and B were recorded in ...

Transient increases in triglycerides and cholesterol were found in rat liver immediately after birth. Plasma VLDL and HDL increased after birth and reached a plateau after one week of life. The content of cholesterol ester was low at birth in all lipoproteins and increased in LDL and HDL during the first week of life. After birth, VLDL became enriched in apolipoproteins C and E, whereas HDL was...

When apolipoprotein A-I mimetic peptides synthesized from either D- or L-amino acids were given orally to LDL receptor-null mice, only the peptide synthesized from D-amino acids was stable in the circulation and enhanced the ability of HDL to protect LDL against oxidation. The peptide synthesized from L-amino acids was rapidly degraded and excreted in the urine. When a peptide synthesized from ...

The relation between lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], apolipoprotein (apo) E phenotypes, cholesterol, triglycerides, apo A-I, apo B, and a family history of atherosclerosis or risk factors was studied in 2- and 4-year-old French Caucasian children (n = 499). Lp(a) concentrations were distributed in a typical skewed manner and were found to be an independent lipid variable. The distribution of apo E phen...