Steroid and fatty acid contents from the leaves of Carica papaya [PDF]
Folia Medica, 2021 Aim: To extract and identify the non-polar entities from the leaves of Carica papaya, a plant used for medicinal purpose as folk medicine.Materials and methods: Petroleum ether extract of the Carica papaya leaves was used for this study.
Vishvraj V. Devmurari +9 more
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Plant-based beverages as good sources of free and glycosidic plant sterols [PDF]
, 2017 To address the ever-growing group of health-conscious consumers, more and more nutritional and health claims are being used on food products. Nevertheless, only very few food constituents, including plant sterols, have been appointed an approved health ...
Decloedt, Anneleen +4 more
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Cultivar and Year-to-Year Variation of Phytosterol Content in Rye (Secale cereale L.) [PDF]
, 2004 Intake of phytosterols (and -stanols) has been shown to decrease the level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and thus protect against development of cardiovascular diseases.
Hansen, H.B. +3 more
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Determination of Main Plant Sterols in Turkish Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by GC-MS
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2017 Plant sterols are belong to triterpenes family of natural products which includes more than 200 different types of plant sterols and more than 4000 other types of triterpenes. The optimization of method, specially the derivatization step as well as the
Halil Erdem +3 more
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Sterol content in sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus L.) as affected by genotypes and environmental conditions [PDF]
, 2010 Phytosterols play essential roles in many plant cell mechanisms. They are of industrial interest since, as part of the diet, they can reduce Low Density Lipoprotein cholesterol.
Alignan, Marion +6 more
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Sterol concentration and distribution in sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus L.) during seed development [PDF]
, 2010 Sunflower seeds are currently used for edible oil production. Among oil minor compounds, phytosterols are of special interest due to their cholesterol reducing properties.
Alignan, Marion +5 more
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Genetic control of sterol esterification in developing wheat endosperm [PDF]
, 1975 1. 1. The action of gene Pln, previously characterized by the sterol ester patterns of mature whole wheat kernels, has been found to be restricted to the endosperm and not to affect the embryo, the pericarp or the seed coat. 2. 2.
Bush +25 more
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Besnoitia besnoiti infection alters both endogenous cholesterol de novo synthesis and exogenous LDL uptake in host endothelial cells [PDF]
, 2008 Besnoitia besnoiti, an apicomplexan parasite of cattle being considered as emergent in Europe, replicates fast in host endothelial cells during acute infection and is in considerable need for energy, lipids and other building blocks for offspring ...
Silva, Liliana M. R. +8 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2019 Background Cotton fiber is a single cell that arises from the epidermis of ovule. It is not only a main economic product of cotton, but an ideal material for studying on the growth and development of plant cell.
Qi Niu +6 more
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, 2007 Analyses of phytosterol classes of olive and hazelnut oils collected from different countries by TLC, GC and GC-MS revealed considerable quantitative differences.
Azadmard-Damirchi, Sodeif
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