Sex-dependent variables in the modulation of postalimentary lipemia.

Objective: To quantify in young adults the sex-dependent differences in lipemic responses to a fat meal, we measured the association of these responses with markers of atherosclerosis and determined their metabolic regulators.

Methods: Forty-nine normolipidemic volunteers, 25 women and 24 men, were matched according to age, body mass index, waist circumference, diet, physical activity, and apolipoprotein-E phenotyping. After receiving a standardized fat meal (40 g of fat/m2 of body surface area), serial blood samples were drawn for laboratory analysis.

Phospholipid transfer protein activity in two cholestatic patients.

Context: Plasma phospholipid transfer protein mediates the transfer of phospholipids from triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, very low density lipoproteins and low density lipoproteins to high density lipoproteins, a process that is also efficient between high density lipoprotein particles. It promotes a net movement of phospholipids, thereby generating small lipid-poor apolipoprotein AI that contains particles and subfractions that are good acceptors for cell cholesterol efflux.

Case Report: We measured the activity of plasma phospholipid transfer protein in two cholestatic patients, assuming that changes in activity would occur in serum that was positive for lipoprotein X.

Effect of atorvastatin on ApoE and ApoC-I synthesis and secretion by THP-1 macrophages.

Apolipoprotein (apo) E and C-I are plasma apolipoproteins that have been implicated in the etiology of atherosclerosis and obesity, respectively. Both proteins are synthesized and secreted by macrophages, though pharmacological regulation of their production is poorly understood. The authors compared the effect of 2 HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, atorvastatin and cerivastatin, on the synthesis and secretion of apoE and apoC-I by THP-1 macrophages.