عنوان المقالة: EFFECTS OF KEFIR AS A PROBIOTIC ON TOTAL LIPID PROFILE AND ACTIVITY OF ASPARTATE AMINO TRANSFERASE AND ALANINE AMINO TRANSFERASE IN SERUM OF HUMAN
Wijdan I. A. Abd-Alwahab and Fahad K. Y. Al-Dulaimi
Abstract
The objective of this study was examined and investigate the effect of varied amounts of kefir fermented
in skim milk in concentrations of serum total lipids profile, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine amino
transferase (ALT) activities in human volunteers, used seventy five (75) human volunteers and have age (40-50) years
were divided into 3 groups including one control and two experimental groups. volunteers in the control group (I)
received normal drinking 200ml tap water, group (II) was treated 200ml from 5% kefir and group (III) was given 200ml
from 7.5% kefir, respectively. At the end of experiment (21 day), blood samples were collected and analyzed, the results
showed serum total lipid profile levels were significantly reduced (p<0.05) in groups II and III compared with control
group in response to kefir treatment, while observed significant increase in concentration of HDL-C in both groups that
treated by kefir in comparison with control group. Moreover, kefir treatment in the groups did not result in any changes
.in serum AST and ALT activity
The obtained present results demonstrate that use kefir as a probioticsin skim milk lowers the harmful lipids in blood,thus
.this research suggesting that use kefir in human diets may have a beneficial effectson health of human body
وجدان ابراهيم عباس عبدالوهاب | Wijdan I. A. Abd-alwahab | 6347