Vegetable oils high in phytosterols make erythrocytes less deformable and shorten the life span of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1166-1178

  Ratnayake, Walisundera M N ^a   L'Abbé, Mary R ^a   Mueller, Rudi ^b   Hayward, Stephen ^a   Plouffe, Louise ^a   Hollywood, Rudy ^a   Trick, Keith ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH DIVISION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canola oil; Cell membrane deformability; Life span; Phytosterols; Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Indexed keywords

PHYTOSTEROL; SOYBEAN OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FAT INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HYPERTENSION; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034056801     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.5.1166     Document Type: Article

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