many herbaceous plants contain compounds that have biological effects in addition to their medicinal properties. they have compounds with numerous properties, including hypo lipidemic, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, and hepato protective ones, which have been analyzed at different levels. one of these plants, with the scientific name of berberis vulgaris, is barberry. the most important compounds i...

recent studies have documented the importance of lipids and lipoproteins as determinants of serum total homocysteine concentrations in persons with myocardial infarction, and in healthy subjects. associations between various biological systems and total homocysteine have also been reported. however, some of these associations are poorly understood. the purpose of our study was to measure serum ...

background: this study conducted as part of a screening program for the promotion of community health in the primary care setting of ormos korthi in andros, greece. the objective of this study was to identify the levels of glucose and total cholesterol in individuals without major cardiovascular problems in order to identify cases of undetected dyslipidemia and high blood glucose levels, in a r...

objective(s):resveratrol (res) is a polyphenol compound that has been shown a promising cardioprotective effect. however, some reports have yielded conflicting findings. herein, we investigated the anti-atherosclerotic effects of res in apolipoprotein e (apo e)-deficient mice on a high cholesterol diet. materials and methods: firstly, atherosclerosis was induced by feeding a high cholesterol di...

background coronary artery disease (cad) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. there is a direct relationship between increased levels of blood cholesterol, triglycerides (tg), low density lipoproteins (ldl), high density lipoproteins (hdl), nitric oxide (no), and high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-crp) and the cad. walnut may reduce these factors and consequently decrease the ris...

Introduction:Cholesterol has different effects on memory, and diabetes caused adverse effect on cognition. Since there is not enough evidence regarding the effect of cholesterol on memory of diabetic animals, the effects of cholesterol and simvastatin on the passive avoidance memory of diabetic rat were studied. Methods:The study was done on 60 male Wistar rats (180 ± 20g). Diabetes was in...

a major group of drugs that have been approved for the therapy of systemic fungal infections are polyene antibiotics. amphotericin b (amb), one of the polyene antibiotics, has been used to treat serious systemic fungal infections by binding to sterols such as ergosterol in fungal cells membrane, and is believed to form pores in the membrane and create a transmembrane ion-channel. since all euka...

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abstract background: cholesterol cleft granulomas with clusters of giant cells were noted to be a common feature of non-specific interstitial pneumonia (nsip). objective: this study aimed to define the cell populations involved in the granulomas. methods: the granulomas of 16 patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (five cases with the histological features ofnsip, five with those ofuip ...