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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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Achocolatados: análise química

TL;DR: Some chemical properties of chocolate drink powders from Brazilian market, such as lipid, protein, ashes, moisture, pH, theobromine and total alkaloids content of the samples were evaluated as discussed by the authors.
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Cocoa colonic phenolic metabolites are related to HDL-cholesterol raising effects and methylxanthine metabolites and insoluble dietary fibre to anti-inflammatory and hypoglycemic effects in humans.

TL;DR: After the regular consumption of both DFC and PC, positive changes were observed in volunteer’s lipid profile, which may be related to the long-lasting presence of colonic phenolic metabolites in blood.
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Antioxidant potential of quercetin: remarkable protection against hypercholesterolemia in rats.

TL;DR: Data revealed that, QE could protect against atherosclerosis by decreasing the oxidative stress state, by reducing lipid peroxides and elevating antioxidant enzymes levels.
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Characterization and bioactivity of proanthocyanidins during Malay cherry (Lepisanthes alata) fruit ripening

TL;DR: In this article, the structural fingerprints of proanthocyanidins were identified using high-performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MOLF) analyses.
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Effect of Theobromine Consumption on Serum Lipoprotein Profiles in Apparently Healthy Humans with Low HDL-Cholesterol Concentrations.

TL;DR: TB was not effective on HDL-CH in subjects with a LP phenotype characterized by low HDL- CH and high TG in VLDL, and had no effect on TG and CH in any of the HDL, V LDL and CM subclasses.
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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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