Economic valuation of the potential health benefits from foods enriched with plant sterols in Canada
Food & Nutrition Research, 2010 Background: Increased consumption of foods containing plant sterols has the potential to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and thus reduce costs associated with treating that disease in a significant way. This paper reports the results
Collin L. Gyles +4 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.
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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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Plant sterols and stanols: effects on mixed micellar composition and LXR (target gene) activation
Journal of Lipid Research, 2005 Plant stanols and sterols of the 4-desmethyl family (e.g., sitostanol and sitosterol) effectively decrease LDL cholesterol concentrations, whereas 4,4-dimethylsterols (α-amyrin and lupeol) do not.
Jogchum Plat +2 more
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The TriForC database : a comprehensive up-to-date resource of plant triterpene biosynthesis [PDF]
, 2018 Triterpenes constitute a large and important class of plant natural products with diverse structures and functions. Their biological roles range from membrane structural components over plant hormones to specialized plant defence compounds.
Bak, Soren +8 more
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Plant sterols: factors affecting their efficacy and safety as functional food ingredients
Lipids in Health and Disease, 2004 Plant sterols are naturally occurring molecules that humanity has evolved with. Herein, we have critically evaluated recent literature pertaining to the myriad of factors affecting efficacy and safety of plant sterols in free and esterified forms.
Abumweis Suhad S +2 more
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Determination of Plant Sterol Oxidation Products in Plant Sterol Enriched Spreads, Fat Blends, and Plant Sterol Concentrates [PDF]
Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, 2004 Abstract Plant sterols (PS) are very stable molecules but may undergo oxidation due to the presence of a double bond in the ring structure. In order to assess whether this occurs during heating and storage, an analytical procedure was developed for the determination of concentration levels and identity of PS oxidation products in ...
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Journal of Lipid Research, 2002 The plasma concentrations of cholesterol precursor sterols and plant sterols vary over a 5- to 10-fold range among normolipidemic individuals, and provide indices of the relative rates of cholesterol synthesis and fractional absorption.
Knut E. Berge +6 more
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Accumulation of cholesterol precursors and plant sterols in human stenotic aortic valves
Journal of Lipid Research, 2008 The pathogenesis of aortic valve stenosis (AS) is characterized by the accumulation of LDL-derived cholesterol in the diseased valves. Since LDL particles also contain plant sterols, we investigated whether plant sterols accumulate in aortic valve ...
Satu Helske +8 more
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Chromosomal location of a gene that controls sterol esterification in Triticum aestivum L. [PDF]
, 1974 A previously described D genome locus (Pln) that controls sterol esterification in the wheat kernel has been assigned to the short arm of chromosome 7 D by comparison of the steryl ester phenotype of euploid kernels of Triticum aestivum variety Chinese ...
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