[Studies on the effects of turpentine powder on the serum concentration of lipids and lipoproteins of female rabbits]

ABSTRACT

To Study the effects of turpentine powder on the concentration of lipids and lipoproteins of rabbit [as an animal model for human studies].Experimental Study.30 healthy female rabbits.30 healthy female rabbits were chosen and thenrandomly allocated into 6 groups of 5 rabbits each. Differentpercent ages of turpentine powder [10% and 100%] and oilcompounds [vegetable oil, cholesterol and animal oil] weregiven to each group, separately. Blood serum lipid andlipoprotein levels were analyzed using routine laboratorymethods.Analysis of variance and Duncan'smultiple range test.Treatment with 10% and 100% turpentine powderhad significant decreasing effect on Serum triglyceride, cholesterol, total lipid, VLDL- cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol [P<0.05] Moreover, it significantly increasedthe Serum HDL- cholesterol [P<0.05]. Treatment with 10%vagetable oil had a significant increasing effect on the serumtriglyceride and VLDL-cholesterol [P<0.05]. Followingtreatment with 10% animal oil, the concentration of HDL-cholesterol showed a significant [P<0.05] decreas while theconcentration of cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol showed asignificant increase [P<0.05].After treatment with 1%cholesterol, the concentration of serum HDL- cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, VLDL-cholesterol, triglyceride and totallipid significantly increased [P<0.05].Treatmentwithturpentinepowderhassignificant effects on the levels of serum lipids andlipoproteins