Tomasz Sozański, Alicja Z Kucharska, Jerzy Wiśniewski, Mariusz G Fleszar, Andrzej Rapak, Agnieszka Gomułkiewicz, Piotr Dzięgiel, Jan Magdalan, Beata Nowak, Dorota Szumny, Agnieszka Matuszewska, Narcyz Piórecki, Adam Szeląg, Małgorzata Trocha
BACKGROUND: Although fruit and vegetable-rich diets have beneficial effects on cardiovascular diseases, we have little knowledge of the impact of fruits and their constituents, iridoids and anthocyanins, on the l-arginine-ADMA-DDAH pathway. Our previous study demonstrated the modulation of those factors by the oral administration of the cornelian cherry fruit. HYPOTHESIS/PURPOSE: We have assessed the effects of the oral administration of two main constituents isolated from the cornelian cherry fruit, iridoid loganic acid and anthocyanins, on l-arginine, its derivatives (ADMA, SDMA), metabolites (DMA, l-citrulline), and the hepatic DDAH activity and its isoform expression in rabbits fed a high-cholesterol diet...
January 2019: Phytomedicine