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| Provedor de dados: |
BABT
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Spirulina platensis effects on the levels of total cholesterol, HDL and triacylglycerols in rabbits fed with a hypercholesterolemic diet
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| Autores: |
Colla,Luciane Maria
Muccillo-Baisch,Ana Luiza
Costa,Jorge Alberto Vieira
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| Data: |
2008-04-01
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Spirulina platensis
Cholesterol
Rabbits
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| Resumo: |
In this work, hypercholesterolemia was induced in rabbits by feeding them a high cholesterol diet (CD, 350 mg/d) and the effects of supplementing this diet with 0.5 g/d Spirulina platensis was evaluated by measuring the levels of serum total-cholesterol (TC), triacylglycerols (TAG) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL-cholesterol) at the start of the experiment and after 30 d and 60 d. It was found that the levels of serum cholesterol decreased from 1,054±101 mg.dL-1 in the rabbits fed a CD without S. platensis to 516±163 mg.dL-1 to those fed with a high cholesterol diet supplemented with S. platensis (significant at p <0.0001). The addition of Spirulina to the cholesterolemic diet did not cause significative decrease on the levels of triacylglycerols in the animals. The levels of serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL-cholesterol) was 73±31 mg.dL-1 for rabbits fed a CD without S. platensis as compared to 91.0±15.7 mg.dL-1 in those fed a CD supplemented with S. platensis (significant at p=0.1533).
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132008000200022
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| Editor: |
Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1516-89132008000200022
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology v.51 n.2 2008
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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