Hypocholesterolemic and hypotensive effects of a fruit-based functional beverage in spontaneously hypertensive rats fed with cholesterol-rich diet

This study was designed to evaluate a polyphenols-rich fruit-based functional beverage on blood pressure, serum and liver lipid profiles in vivo. Sixty spontaneously hypertensive rats were divided into five groups and were fed with a AIN-93G-diet as the normal control (NC), high cholesterol diet as...

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Main Authors: K.D.P.P. Gunathilake, Y. Wang, H.P. Vasantha Rupasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-07-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
Subjects:
LDL
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464613001345