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Lluís Arola

Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Advanced separation methods of food anthocyanins, isoflavones and flavanols

J Valls, S Millán, MP Martí, E Borràs, L Arola - Journal of Chromatography A, 2009 - Elsevier
In recent years, increasing knowledge of the positive health effects of food polyphenols has
prompted the need to develop new separation techniques for their extraction, fractionation …

Hypolipidemic effects of proanthocyanidins and their underlying biochemical and molecular mechanisms

C Bladé, L Arola, MJ Salvadó - Molecular nutrition & food …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… /L Inhibition of TAG and ApoB secretion into the media 66 Pure and purified monomeric and
dimeric proanthocyanidin forms Proanthocyanidin monomers and dimers B1-4 25 mg/L No …

Bioactivity of flavonoids on insulin‐secreting cells

…, A Castell, I Baiges, G Montagut, L Arola… - … Reviews in Food …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… In fact, the concentration of resveratrol used for the experiments seems to be critical, since
other experiments showed no effect of 100 μmol/L resveratrol on insulin secretion in MIN6 …

Grape seed-derived procyanidins have an antihyperglycemic effect in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats and insulinomimetic activity in insulin-sensitive cell lines

M Pinent, M Blay, MC Blade, MJ Salvado, L Arola… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Flavonoids are functional constituents of many fruits and vegetables. Some flavonoids have
antidiabetic properties because they improve altered glucose and oxidative metabolisms of …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme activity by flavonoids: structure-activity relationship studies

…, J Castillo, M Quinones, S Garcia-Vallve, L Arola… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies have demonstrated that certain flavonoids can have an inhibitory effect on
angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity, which plays a key role in the regulation of …

Grape-seed procyanidins prevent low-grade inflammation by modulating cytokine expression in rats fed a high-fat diet

…, G Pujadas, J Salvadó, L Arola… - The Journal of nutritional …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of procyanidin intake
on the level of inflammatory mediators in rats fed a hyperlipidic diet, which are a model of …

Grape-seed procyanidins act as antiinflammatory agents in endotoxin-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages by inhibiting NFkB signaling pathway

…, J Valls, X Vitrac, JM Mérrillon, L Arola… - Journal of agricultural …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Procyanindin extract (PE) is a mixture of polyphenols, mainly procyanidins, obtained from
grape seed with putative antiinflammatory activity. We evaluated the PE effect on RAW 264.7 …

Bioavailability of procyanidin dimers and trimers and matrix food effects in in vitro and in vivo models

…, MP Romero, J Valls, C Bladé, L Arola… - British Journal of …, 2010 - cambridge.org
… Tobajas for their technical assistance, and the MITOFOOD network of which L. Arola is a
member. The authors declare that no conflict of interest regarding the present article is present. …

Grape seed procyanidins improve atherosclerotic risk index and induce liver CYP7A1 and SHP expression in healthy rats

…, M Blay, A Ardèvol, MJ Salvadó, L Arola… - The FASEB …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Moderate consumption of red wine reduces risk of death from cardiovascular disease. The
polyphenols in red wine are ultimately responsible for this effect, exerting antiatherogenic …

Grape seed proanthocyanidins correct dyslipidemia associated with a high-fat diet in rats and repress genes controlling lipogenesis and VLDL assembling in liver

…, J Fernandez-Larrea, M Pinent, L Arola… - International journal of …, 2009 - nature.com
Objective: To determine whether proanthocyanidins can protect against dyslipidemia induced
by a high-fat diet (HFD) and to address the mechanisms that underlie this hypolipidemic …