Nutrition, Body Weight and Deterioration of Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia

Lipid and apolipoprotein serum levels as a consequence of excessive nutrition in the overweight individuals with familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCHL) in comparison with the obese ones are studied only sporadically. In this study, the effect of overweight and obesity in subjects with FCHL on serum lipids and apolipoproteins was investigated. The participants were 36 overweight and 10 obese men. 17 normolipidemic healthy men served as the control group. The mean age of all subjects included was 49±9 years. Lipid and apolipoprotein serum levels were determined by standard methods. The increased body weight in overweight men with FCHL correlates with increased cholesterol and triacylglycerol serum levels (p<0.001), atherogenous ratio values, apolipoprotein serum levels – apo C-III, apo C-II and apo B100 (p<0.001) as well as decreased HDL cholesterol serum levels (p<0.05). Lipid metabolism in men with FCHL is deteriorated by a high energy intake and its low output. The overweight and not only obesity, in association with FCHL, is an important risk factor for premature development of ischemic events

Surgical Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Its Vasculature in the Laboratory Rat

The aim of this study was to describe and illustrate the morphology of the stomach, liver, intestine, and their vasculature to support the planning of surgical therapeutic methods in abdominal cavity. On adult Wistar rats corrosion casts were prepared from the arterial system and Duracryl Dental and PUR SP were used as a casting medium and was performed macroscopic anatomical dissection of the stomach, liver, and intestine was performed. The rat stomach was a large, semilunar shaped sac with composite lining. On the stomach was very marked fundus, which formed a blind sac (saccus cecus). The rat liver was divided into six lobes, but without gall bladder. Intestine of the rat was simple, but cecum had a shape as a stomach. The following variations were observed in the origin of the cranial mesenteric artery. On the corrosion cast specimens we noticed the presence of the anastomosis between middle colic artery (a. colica media) and left colic artery (a. colica sinistra). We investigated the second anastomosis between middle colic artery and left colic artery. The results of this study reveal that the functional anatomical relationship between the rat stomach, liver and intestine is important for the development of surgical research in human and veterinary medicine