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Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans

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Cocoa powder and dark chocolate may favorably affect cardiovascular disease risk status by modestly reducing LDL oxidation susceptibility, increasing serum total antioxidant capacity and HDL-cholesterol concentrations, and not adversely affecting prostaglandins.
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This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2001-11-01. It has received 342 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dark chocolate & Oxygen radical absorbance capacity.

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The anti-inflammatory properties of cocoa flavanols.

TL;DR: Flavanol-rich cocoa could be a potential candidate for the treatment, or possibly prevention, of the broad array of chronic diseases that are linked to dysfunctional inflammatory responses, and additional research in well-designed human clinical experiments would be a welcome addition to the evidence base.
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Bioactive polyphenols and cardiovascular disease: chemical antagonists, pharmacological agents or xenobiotics that drive an adaptive response?

TL;DR: The implications are that in vitro antioxidant measures as predictors of polyphenol protective activity in vivo hold little relevance and that closer attention needs to be paid to bioavailable metabolites to understand the mode of action of these diet‐derived components.
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Proanthocyanidins: Biological Activities Associated with Human Health

TL;DR: Results from a variety of experiments indicate proanthocyanidins may modulate several reactions involved in cancer processes, and a crucial research need is to identify further biologically active components of proanthic flavans so that mechanisms of action at the tissue, cellular, and subcellular levels can be elucidated.
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Hepatoprotective Effect of Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) Extract against Tamoxifen-induced Liver Injury in Rats

TL;DR: The data obtained from this study speculated that 1.5 % GTE has the capacity to scavenge free radical and can protect against oxidative stress induced by TAM intoxication and could be useful in alleviating tamoxifen-induced liver injury in rats.
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Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent

TL;DR: Procedures are described for measuring protein in solution or after precipitation with acids or other agents, and for the determination of as little as 0.2 gamma of protein.
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Estimation of the Concentration of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Plasma, Without Use of the Preparative Ultracentrifuge

TL;DR: A method for estimating the cholesterol content of the serum low-density lipoprotein fraction (Sf0-20) is presented and comparison of this suggested procedure with the more direct procedure, in which the ultracentrifuge is used, yielded correlation coefficients of .94 to .99.
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Continuous monitoring of in vitro oxidation of human low density lipoprotein.

TL;DR: The kinetics of the oxidation of human low densit) lipoprotein (LDL) can be measured continuously by monitoring the change of the 234 nm diene absorption as discussed by the authors.
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Polyphenolic Flavanols as Scavengers of Aqueous Phase Radicals and as Chain-Breaking Antioxidants

TL;DR: Against propagating lipid peroxyl radical species, epicatechin and catechin are as effective as ECG and EGCG, the least efficacious being EGC and GA.
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