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From: High-cholesterol diet enriched with onion affects endothelium-dependent relaxation and NADPH oxidase activity in mesenteric microvessels from Wistar rats

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Onion ingredient reverses endothelial dysfunction induced by high-cholesterol diet. Endothelium-dependent relaxation induced by exposure to acetylcholine (ACh; 1 nM to 30 μM) in noradrenaline (NA)-contracted rat mesenteric arteries collected from rats fed the control, high-cholesterol (HC) and high-cholesterol enriched with onion (HCO) diets. Data are expressed as the mean ± SEM of the percentage of the remaining NA-induced contraction. n indicates the number of vascular segments used for the experiments obtained from 4–5 rats. ***P < 0.001 vs. control group by a two-way ANOVA test.

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Nutrition & Metabolism

ISSN: 1743-7075

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