β-Glucan fractions from barley and oats are similarly antiatherogenic in hypercholesterolemic Syrian golden hamsters

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 468-475

  Delaney, Bryan ^a   Nicolosi, Robert J ^b   Wilson, Thomas A ^b   Carlson, Ting ^a   Frazer, Scott ^a   Zheng, Guo Hua ^a   Hess, Richard ^a   Ostergren, Karen ^a   Haworth, James ^a   Knutson, Nathan ^a  

^a CARGILL INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic cholesterol ester; Early atherosclerosis; Fecal neutral sterol; LDL cholesterol; Glucan

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CELLULOSE; CHOLESTEROL; COCONUT OIL; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BARLEY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL LIVER LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG POTENCY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GRAIN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALIA; AVENA; CRICETINAE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 0037312683     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.2.468     Document Type: Article

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