Black pepper dietary supplementation increases high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels in pigs

Feeding Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) or Exogenous Xylanase Improves the Blood Lipid Profile of Broiler Chickens Fed Wheat-Based Diets

“…The chemical composition of BP was within the expected range [9,27,37]. It is recognized that the composition of plants, e.g., wheat [38], naturally varies due to different climate, soil, agronomy, cultivars, geographical regions, processing and laboratory analysis techniques.…”

“…However, others [12] did not find changes in blood lipid variables attributed to feeding BP to broiler chickens. Previous research [9] showed that feeding BP to growing pigs increased HDL and vitamin C in blood. It has been reported [13] that feeding BP to poultry decreases blood TC.…”

“…The antioxidants in basal feed, BP and liver, including vitamin E, coenzyme Q 10 and total carotenoids (TCS), were determined as previously described [33,34]. Blood plasma analyses including total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), lowdensity lipoproteins (LDL), triglyceride (TG), total protein (TP), Ca, P, Fe and Mg were also performed [9,35,36].…”

“…It is native to parts of the Malabar Coast of India and is one of the earliest known spices. Black pepper is also well known for its use as a food ingredient and in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine [9]. The principal bioactive component of BP fruits, piperine, is an alkaloid that has a wide range of pharmacological effects, including antioxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-proliferative and anti-tumour and cholesterollowering properties [10].…”

The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the power of Twitter networking exemplified through #INPST hashtag analysis

“…Representative examples of different INPST-based activities (Table 2) are aligned with the multiple dissemination and outreach activities. INPST-based networking has proven to be an excellent catalyst for new collaborative integrated scientific research (Banach et al, 2018;Horbanczuk et al, 2019;Jozwik et al, 2018;Ruscica et al, 2021;Tancheva et al, 2020;Tewari et al, 2020;Tzvetkov et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2019b;Zhubi-Bakija et al, 2021), including joint work conducting meta-analysis of the published literature (Durazzo et al, 2021a(Durazzo et al, , 2021bYeung et al, 2018Yeung et al, , 2019aYeung et al, , 2020aYeung et al, 2019bYeung et al, , 2020bYeung et al, , 2020cYeung et al, 2019cYeung et al, , 2021cYeung et al, , 2019d, and the preparation of scientific collaborative review publications (Khan et al, 2020;Li et al, 2021;Mondal et al, 2021Mondal et al, , 2019Tewari et al, 2018;Vacca et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2022Wang et al, , 2018Wang et al, , 2019a utilizing broadly-international collaborative work. In the latest example of collaborative work type, a special mention deserves a 2021 article from Nature Reviews Drug Discovery entitled "Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities," in which the International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce was used for the first time as an author group designation (Atanasov et al, 2021).…”