@article{eprints3091,
           pages = {759 -- 762},
       publisher = {Elsevier},
           title = {Deficiency and supplementation of \{PUFA\} in the diet have similar effects on the age-associated changes in rat-plasma cholesterol levels},
            year = {2008},
          author = {Sara Straniero and Gabriella Cavallini and Alessio Donati and Maria Rita Metelli and Ilaria Tamburini and Pietro Pietrini and Ettore Bergamini},
         journal = {Mechanisms of Ageing and Development},
          volume = {129},
          number = {12},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3091/},
        keywords = {Ageing; Cholesterol; Triglycerides; Dietary PUFA; Rat},
        abstract = {Levels of plasma cholesterol, particularly \{LDL\} cholesterol, increase with increasing age in humans and rodents. Feeding a fish oil-rich diet may exert hypocholesterolemic effects. The aim of this work was to examine the effects of a life-long administration of a PUFA-enriched diet and of a PUFA-deficient diet in male Sprague?Dawley rats on the age-associated increases in plasma cholesterol and triglycerides. Diet had small effects on body-weight, and had dramatic effects on liver phospholipids-fatty acids. Surprisingly, both diets counteracted the age-associated changes in plasma cholesterol and triglycerides similarly and benefits were already visible in adult rats.}
}