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Lowering effect of dietary milk-whey protein v. casein on plasma and liver cholesterol concentrations in rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Xizhong Zhang  and
Anton C. Beynen
Xizhong Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Hygeine, Shanxi Medical College, Taiyuan, Shanxi, The People's Republic of China Department of Laboratory Animal Science, State University, PO Box 80.166, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Anton C. Beynen
Affiliation:
Department of Laboratory Animal Science, State University, PO Box 80.166, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
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The effect of dietary whey protein v. casein on plasma and liver cholesterol concentrations was investigated in female, weanling rats. Balanced, purified diets containing either whey protein or casein, or the amino acid mixtures simulating these proteins, were used. The high-cholesterol diets (10 g cholesterol/kg feed) had either 150 or 300 g protein or amino acids/kg feed. The diets were fed for 3 weeks. At the low dietary protein level, whey protein v. casein did not affect plasma total cholesterol, but lowered the concentration of liver cholesterol. At the high dietary protein level, whey protein significantly lowered plasma and liver cholesterol and also plasma triacylglycerols. The hypocholesterolaemic effect of whey protein was associated with a decrease in very-low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol. At the high dietary protein concentration, whey protein reduced the faecal excretion of bile acids when compared with casein. The effects of intact whey protein v. casein were not reproduced by the amino acid mixtures simulating these proteins. It is suggested tentatively that the cholesterol-lowering effect of whey protein in rats is caused by inhibition of hepatic cholesterol synthesis.

Keywords

Whey proteinPlasma cholesterolLiver cholesterolBile acidsRat
Type
Dietary Interactions with Lipid Metabolism
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , July 1993 , pp. 139 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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