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Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Properties of β-Sitosterol in Copper Sulfate-Induced Inflammation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Antioxidants, 2023
β-Sitosterol, which is used extensively in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmetics, has high nutritional value along with immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties.
Peng Zhang, Naicheng Liu, Mingyang Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Wei Liu, Chen Xu, Yuding Fan, Yan Meng, Qinghua Zhang, Yong Zhou   +9 more
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Potential Antibacterial Activity of Bioactive β-sitosterol from Root Bark of Rhizophora apiculata from Lampung Coastal

Jurnal Kimia Sains dan Aplikasi, 2021
β-sitosterol is an essential bioactive phytosterol naturally present in plant cell membranes. It has a coincident structure with animal cholesterol. This investigation reported isolation, structure analysis, and an antimicrobial assay of β-sitosterol ...
Rahmat Kurniawan, Tati Suhartati, Yandri AS, Desi Meriyanti, Sukrasno Sukrasno   +4 more
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Inhibitory Effect of β-Sitosterol on the Ang II-Induced Proliferation of A7r5 Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells

Analytical Cellular Pathology, 2023
Context. Excessive proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) plays a critical role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. β-Sitosterol exerts protective effects against the cardiovascular disease.
Yuankun Chen, Shumiao He, Ao Zeng, Siqing He, Xiaobao Jin, Chunmei Li, Wenjie Mei, Qun Lu   +7 more
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Beta-Sitosterol Promotes Milk Protein and Fat Syntheses-Related Genes in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells

Animals, 2021
β-sitosterol, a phytosterol with multiple biological activities, has been used in the pharmaceutical industry. However, there are only a few reports on the use of β-sitosterol in improving milk synthesis in dairy cows. This study aimed to investigate the
Xinlu Liu, Jinglin Shen, Jinxin Zong, Jiayi Liu, Yongcheng Jin   +4 more
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Solid phase extraction of β-sitosterol and α-tocopherol from sunflower oil deodorizer distillate using desilicated zeolite

Grasas y Aceites, 2020
In this study, the efficiency of using zeolite-based adsorbents in a solid phase extraction (SPE) procedure of α-tocopherol and β-sitosterol isolation from Sunflower Oil Deodorizer Distillate (SuDOD) with­out pre-treatment was investigated.
O. Karaoglu, G. Alpdogan, I. S. Ozdemir, E. Ertas   +3 more
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Gas Chromatographic Determination and Method Validation of Stigmasterol, Î’-Sitosterol, Campesterol and Brassicasterol Contents of Turkish Cottonseed Oil Samples

Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology, 2017
Plant sterols are important agricultural products for human health and consequently, for nutrition industries. In the present study, free sterol contents of crude Turkish cottonseed oil samples have been determined in a single analytical run by using a solid phase extraction step prior to the detection with a gas chromatography coupled with a flame ...
Yücel, Cemile Özdemir, Ertaş, Hasan, Ertaş, Fatma Nil   +2 more
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Naringenin potentiated β-sitosterol healing effect on the scratch wound assay

Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2019
In the present investigation scratch wound assay was used to study the ability of several combinations of each flavonoid (chrysin, naringenin or resveratrol) with β-sitosterol to heal wounds in vitro.
Manal Mohammad Abbas, Naseer Al-Rawi, Manal Ahmad Abbas, Iqbal Al-Khateeb   +3 more
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Synthesis of derivatives of β-sitosterol and evaluation of their anti-bacterial activity

Ceylon Journal of Science, 2021
Antimicrobial resistance is one of a major health issue and warrants the development of new antimicrobial agents with structural diversity and novel mechanisms of action.
L. A. M. Fernando, W. G. D. Wickramasingha, S. Jayasinghe   +2 more
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LXR/RXR ligand activation enhances basolateral efflux of β-sitosterol in CaCo-2 cells

Journal of Lipid Research, 2004
To examine whether intestinal ABCA1 was responsible for the differences observed between cholesterol and β-sitosterol absorption, ABCA1-facilitated β-sitosterol efflux was investigated in CaCo-2 cells following liver X receptor/retinoid X receptor (LXR ...
F. Jeffrey Field, Ella Born, Satya N. Mathur   +2 more
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Therapeutic efficacy of β-sitosterol treatment on Trypanosoma congolense infection, anemia development, and trans-sialidase (TconTS1) gene expression

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
BackgroundAfrican animal trypanosomiasis hinders sustainable livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. About 17 million infected cattle are treated with trypanocides annually but most of the drugs are associated with drawbacks, necessitating the ...
Suleiman Aminu, Suleiman Aminu, Gloria Dada Chechet, Gloria Dada Chechet, Samia S. Alkhalil, Mansour Sobeh, Rachid Daoud, Mthokozisi B. Simelane, Elewechi Onyike, Mohammed Auwal Ibrahim, Mohammed Auwal Ibrahim   +10 more
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