objective: to study the effects of a high dose alpha-tocopherol on serum total cholesterol (tc), triglyceride (tg), and the high density lipoprotein (hdl) levels of patients with schizophrenia receiving olanzapine. method: thirty six adults diagnosed with schizophrenia based on dsm-iv who were taking olanzapine for a minimum of thirty days entered this eight-week, double blind, placebo-controll...

abstract aims: it seems that there is a causal link between dietary fat and body weight. overweight obesity is the biggest nutrition-related problem in developed countries and the rapid summation of obesity is taking place in their populations. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of different diets on the obesity of syrian hamsters. materials & methods: this experimental study condu...

objective(s): atherosclerosis is the main leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. the purpose of this study was to assess the potential preventive effect of egg yolk hdl on the atherosclerosis plaque formation. materials and methods: thirty rabbits were divided into five groups: a; normal diet, b; hyper-cholesterolemic diet, c; hypercholesterolemic + 400 mg/kg egg yolk hdl d; hypercholesterol...

results: this study showed significantly lowered concentrations of testosterone (3.11 nm/l ± 0.34) and hdl (0.39 mmol/l ± 0.02), in addition to the expected increased concentrations of fasting plasma glucose (9.61 mmol/l ± 0.37) in the subjects compared to controls (p < 0.05). an inverse significant correlation was observed between the serum testosterone concentration and metabolic syndrome (bm...

evaluation of the blood and milk biochemical parameters always is considered as effective key factor for animal health and dairy products. in order to assess the association of kappa-casein (k-cn) genetic variants with blood biochemical indicators, blood samples were randomly and individually collected from 126 iranian guilan native cattle. blood plasma was used to measure blood glucose, urea, ...

an experiment was conducted in algerian desert goats to study the effect of age and season on blood biochemical and mineral profile during different physiological stages of the goats. serum ca, mg and na levels were significantly high at birth and decreases as the age advanced. the season had a significant effect on the decreased levels of ca, mg and k and inversely on the increased levels of n...

conclusions these results suggest that serum cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols have no effect on the levels of cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols of spermatozoa and seminal plasma. our findings suggest that sperm lipid content is regulated locally within the male reproductive tract. patients and methods cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols in sperm cells, s...