Development of Antiatherosclerotic Drugs on the basis of Natural Products Using Cell Model Approach

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Antiatherosclerotic effect of garlic powder in the ex vivo model. The study involved 8 volunteers (6 males, 2 females, mean age years) whose blood serum induced 1.3–2.7-fold increase in cholesterol content of cells cultured from unaffected human aortic intima (the average level of serum atherogenicity was %). Intracellular cholesterol in control cultures was  mg/mg cell protein. Baseline serum atherogenicity was taken as 100%. The average values of changes of serum atherogenicity with indication of standard errors are presented. Significant decrease of serum atherogenicity, .