@article{oai:ncu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000103, author = {Horie, Yoshimitsu and Naito, Chiaki and Horie, Kazuyo}, journal = {Annual review}, month = {Mar}, note = {To evaluate more rapidly the plasma endogenous cholesterol level in rats given diets containing Shiitake fungus powder, two animal experiments were conducted. One was to fed rats on diets for consecutive two weeks and the other to fed rats on diets for three days after two-day fasting. In both experiments, there were found decreases in food intake, lowered increase in body weight and drastically lowered plasma total- and HDL- cholesterols with significancies of P<0.01 when the Shiitake diet was given. This finding indicated that the latter experiment, which takes only a total of five days, can be profitable for rapid evaluation of plasma endogenous cholesterol in rats as animal experiment terms are shortened and expenses for feeding are restrained.}, pages = {31--34}, title = {Rapid evaluation method for plasma endogenous cholesterol level in rats given a Shiitake fungus powder diet}, volume = {5}, year = {2001} }