Effects of diet supplementation with cactus pear seeds and oil on serum and liver lipid parameters in rats

Food Chemistry

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 248-253

  Ennouri, Monia ^a,d   Fetoui, Hamadi ^b   Hammami, Mohamed ^c   Bourret, Evelyne ^d   Attia, Hamadi ^a   Zeghal, Najiba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

^c Medicine Faculty   (Tunisia)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Fatty acids profile; Liver; Opuntia ficus indica seeds; Serum

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENIC DIET; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FOOD INTAKE; KIDNEY MASS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS; PLANT SEED; RAT;

CACTACEAE; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 33747069978     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2006.01.026     Document Type: Article

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