Cholesterol ester content of the serum: Alterations due to simple and complex carbohydrate diets in nonhuman primates ( Cebus albifrons, Macaca arctoides, and Macaca mulatta)

Three species of nonhuman primates ( Cebus albifrons, Macaca arctoides, and Macaca mulatta) were fed diets containing high levels of cither sucrose or dextrin. After 1 year of feeding, a quantitative serum cholesterol ester determination was done by TLC, densitometric, and GLC techniques. When the sucrose- and dextrin-fed Macaca mulatta were compared to those on a normal laboratory diet, monoenoic cholesterol esters (Band II) were found to be elevated and dicnoic cholesterol esters (Band III), to be decreased.