Research Article
The Hypocholesterolemic Effects of Eryngium carlinae F. Delaroche Are Mediated by the Involvement of the Intestinal Transporters ABCG5 and ABCG8
Table 1
Experimental groups.
| Number | Experimental group | Treatment |
| (1) | Control | Standard diet (Laboratory Rodent Diet 5001) ad libitum | (2) | Hypercholesterolemia | Hypercholesterolemic diet (1% cholesterol, 0.5% cholic acid) ad libitum | (3) | Ezetimibe | Ezetimibe 10 mg/kg and hypercholesterolemic diet ad libitum (Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, USA) | (4) | Hydroalcoholic extract | Extract of Eryngium carlinae at a dose of 100 mg/kg and hypercholesterolemic diet and water ad libitum | (5) | Hydroalcoholic extract | Extract of Eryngium carlinae at a dose of 500 mg/kg and hypercholesterolemic diet ad libitum | (6) | Hexa-O-acetyl-D-mannitol | Mannitol hexaacetate at a dose of 10 mg/kg and hypercholesterolemic diet ad libitum | (7) | D-Mannitol | D-Mannitol at a dose of 10 mg/kg and hypercholesterolemic diet ad libitum |
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Different treatments during the evaluation of Eryngium carlinae. All treatments were administered every day at 15:00 h for four weeks.
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