Cholesterol dynamics in rabbit liver: High-fat diet, olive oil, and synergistic dietary effects.

Background & Aims: Lipid metabolism disorders contribute to a range of human diseases, including liver-related pathologies. Rabbits, highly sensitive to dietary cholesterol, provide a model for understanding the development of liver disorders. Sterol regulatory element-binding protein isoform 2 (SREBP2) crucially regulates intracellular cholesterol pathways.

[Lipid - lowering effect of mate tea intake in dyslipidemic subjects].

Introduction: Mate is the national infusion of Argentina and its properties on human health have not been fully elucidated.

Objective: To evaluate changes in lipid profile in dyslipidemic patients supplemented with yerba mate.

Methods: 121 dyslipidemic subjects (total cholesterol (TC), LDL cholesterol (LDLC) cholesterol and / or triglycerides (TG) elevated) without lipid-lowering therapy, both sexes (74 women and 47 men) between 40 and 60 years old were studied.