Thematic review series: Brain Lipids. Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system during early development and in the mature animal
Unesterified cholesterol is an essential structural component of the plasma membrane of every cell. During evolution, this membrane came to play an additional, highly specialized role in the central nervous system (CNS) as the major architectural component of compact myelin. As a consequence, in the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2004-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520313006 |