Table 3.

Relationship between amino acids and hypercholesterolemia.

Risk Factors	Experimental Model	Amino Acids	Findings	Reference
Hypercholes terolemia	Hypercholesterolemic Wistar Rats	Liver AAs	A hypercholesterolemic diet resulted in decreased levels of glycine, serine, threonine, and histidine, and increased concentrations of asparagine and valine.	[149]
	Hypercholesterolemic Wistar Rats	Plasma AAs	A hypercholesterolemic diet led to a decrease in spermidine level and an increase in the level of the spermidine metabolites such as ornithine and spermidine.	[150]

Legend: AA: Amino acids.