Does phytosterols supplementation decrease plasma small and dense LDL levels in metabolic syndrome patients on a westernized type diet?
Phytosterol supplementation improves risk factors of coronary artery disease even if the diet is a westernized type.
In our model it appears that a subtherapeutic dose of FK506 enhanced the tolerizing effect of NKT cells induced by oral tolerance, prolonging allograft survival by generating CD25+CD4+ CTLA4 T cells. This appears to be an excellent in vivo model to generate regulatory T cells to allospecific transplant antigens.