Chinese soft-shelled turtle egg powder lowers serum cholesterol, increases faecal neutral steroids and bile acid excretion, and up-regulates liver cytochrome P450 mRNA level in rats

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-320

  Huanling, Yu ^a   Yong, Li ^b   Junbo, Wang ^a   Liping, Zheng ^a   Weixing, Yan ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Faecal bile acid; Lipid lowering; Low cholesterol; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BILE ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P450; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL PRODUCT; STEROID;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL LIVER LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EGG; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID DIET; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POWDER; RAT; TURTLE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EGGS; FECES; LIVER; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS; TURTLES;

TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 26044449342     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20051485     Document Type: Article

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