lipid

Converse of object

• lower: Fasting has been used by patients for weight management, to rest the digestive tract and for lowering lipids.
• fast: Current guidelines are that fasting total lipids be below 5.2.
• raise: When the experts did the experiments the Atkins Diet was found not to be associated with raised lipids.
• protect: Taurine in combination with retinol protects lipids twice as much as retinol alone.

Preposition: in

• membrane: Antioxidants inhibit the oxidation of lipids in cell membranes, leading to impairment of cell function.

Adjective modifier

• dietary: Current work includes: assessing the contribution of dietary lipids in sea urchin gonads from sub-tidal and intertidal areas of Loch Creran.
• neutral: Some areas showed accumulation of neutral lipid in fibers that stained positively for succinate dehydrogenase.
• natural: Bubble baths and soaps should be avoided as they remove the natural lipids from the surface of the skin and can be an irritant.

Modifies a noun

• peroxidation: Effects of vitamin E in lipid peroxidation in healthy persons.
• bilayer: The basic structure of the plasma membrane is a lipid bilayer no stronger than a soap bubble.
• bilayers: Membrane proteins are compact, highly versatile proteins that work inserted in the lipid bilayers that separate the cell from its surroundings.
• raft: Floating the raft hypothesis: the roles of lipid rafts in B cell antigen receptor function.
• metabolism: Main current research is on the transcriptional control of lipid metabolism in farmed fish species, funded by the EU.
• peroxide: The results showed that the group practicing the TM technique had 15 % lower serum lipid peroxide levels compared to the controls.

Noun used with modifier

• serum: There was no significant effect on serum lipids, fasting glucose or insulin levels, or blood pressure.
• plasma: Diagnosis of the cause of raised plasma lipid levels will enable appropriate decisions to be taken with regard to management.
• membrane: A membrane lipid or protein is tagged with a fluorescent dye.
• blood: The most popular test has been for blood lipids in association with cardiac risk ­ the average age for the test was 51.
• raft: Future studies will also help to clarify the molecular mechanisms involved in the chaperone activity of raft lipids.
• purity: The company's extensive range of health care ingredients includes essential fatty acids, high purity lipids, drug delivery systems and protein derivatives.