Maria Sílvia Ferrari Lavrador

Dietary interesterified fat enriched with palmitic acid induces atherosclerosis by impairing macrophage cholesterol efflux and eliciting inflammation

Milessa Silva Afonso, Maria Sílvia Ferrari Lavrador, Márcia Kiyomi Koike et al. · The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry · 2016 · 54 citations · Full text

Inflammation, Nutrition, Metabolic Syndrome +8

Dietary phytosterol does not accumulate in the arterial wall and prevents atherosclerosis of LDLr-KO mice

Renata P.A. Bombo, Milessa Silva Afonso, Roberta Marcondes Machado et al. · Atherosclerosis · 2013 · 37 citations · Full text

Metabolic Syndrome, Oxysterol, Biochemistry +13

Interesterified Fats Induce Deleterious Effects on Adipose Tissue and Liver in LDLr-KO Mice

Maria Sílvia Ferrari Lavrador, Milessa Silva Afonso, Dennys E. Cintra et al. · Nutrients · 2019 · 22 citations · Full text

Fatty Liver Disease, Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome +21

Plasma lathosterol measures rates of cholesterol synthesis and efficiency of dietary phytosterols in reducing the plasma cholesterol concentration

V.S. Nunes, Angela de Oliveira Godoy Ilha, Guilherme da Silva Ferreira et al. · Clinics · 2022 · 10 citations · Full text