News tagged with lipoprotein

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Blueberry's effects on cholesterol examined in lab animal study

Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New protein could prove powerful target for cholesterol lowering drugs

A protein has been discovered that may have a profound effect on cholesterol metabolism. That discovery raises the possibility that the protein, dubbed IDOL, could be a powerful target for cholesterol-lowering drugs, says ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High levels of 'good' cholesterol may cut bowel cancer risk

High levels of "good" (high density lipoprotein) HDL cholesterol seem to cut the risk of bowel cancer, suggests research published online in Gut.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Study reinforces link between obesity, high-fat meals and heart disease

The effect of a high-fat meal on blood vessel walls can vary among individuals depending on factors such as their waist size and triglyceride levels, suggests new research at UC Davis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9

Significant weight-loss from surgery decreases risk for cardiovascular disease in women

Significant weight loss not only improves daily life of morbidly obese woman but also decreases the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, many people can not lose weight or can not maintain weight loss without help. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New links between cholesterol and depression in the elderly

Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one's risk for depression, and that abnormal ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Aggressive control of cardiac risk factors might not benefit all patients with diabetes

A mathematical model suggests that aggressively pursuing low blood pressure and cholesterol levels may not benefit, and could even harm, some patients with diabetes, according to a report in the June 28 issue of Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers explore role of fat-carrying lipids in diabetes

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a review article published this month in Nature Reviews: Nephrology, UC Davis cardiovascular specialists elucidate the role of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins — carriers of fats in the blood — in the in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Intensive BP, combined lipid therapies do not help adults with diabetes

Lowering blood pressure to normal levels - below currently recommended levels - did not significantly reduce the combined risk of fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular disease events in adults with type 2 diabetes who were at ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cholesterol's link to heart disease gets clearer -- and more complicated

By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer, if more complicated, picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The findings reported in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

One in five U.S. teenagers has high cholesterol

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has found that over 20% of teenagers in the U.S. have elevated cholesterol levels ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Low cholesterol transfer protein activity associated with heart disease risk

Although seen as a potential heart disease therapy, raising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels by inhibiting activity of a transfer protein may not be effective, a new study suggests. Scientists at the Jean ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic analysis helps dissect molecular basis of cardiovascular disease

Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prevalence of high LDL, or 'bad' cholesterol levels decreases in US

Between 1999 and 2006, the prevalence of adults in the U.S. with high levels of LDL cholesterol, the "bad" cholesterol, decreased by about one-third, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. But a high percen ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lipoprotein

A lipoprotein is a biochemical assembly that contains both proteins and lipids water-bound to the proteins. Many enzymes, transporters, structural proteins, antigens, adhesins, and toxins are lipoproteins. Examples include the high-density (HDL) and low-density (LDL) lipoproteins, which enable fats to be carried in the blood stream, the transmembrane proteins of the mitochondrion and the chloroplast, and bacterial lipoproteins.

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