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2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fatty acid type dictates taurine's effects on high cholesterol levels.
"We studied whether the type of dietary fatty acid influences the preventive effect of taurine on the ovarian hormone deficiency-induced increase in plasma cholesterol concentration in 6-mo-old ovariectomized rats," scientists writing in the Journal of Nutrition reported.
"Rats were fed 1 of the following 4 diets for 28 days: purified diets based on corn oil, which is rich in linoleic acid, with or without taurine (50 g/kg) or purified diets based on coconut oil, which is rich in lauric and myristic acids, with or without taurine. Body mass gain, food intake, liver weight and plasma apolipoprotein (apo) A-I, apo B, LDL and VLDL concentrations were not affected by the diets," according to T. Kishida and colleagues, Ehime University, Department of Biological Resources.
"On the other hand, taurine lowered the plasma total cholesterol concentration (p
"Taurine increased liver total lipid (p
Kishida and colleagues published their study in Journal of Nutrition (Taurine prevents hypercholesterolemia in ovariectomized rats fed corn oil but not in those fed coconut oil. J Nutr, 2003;133(8):2616-2621).
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