Hepatic transport and secretion of unesterified cholesterol in the rat is traced by the plant sterol, sitostanol.
The hepatic uptake, transport, and secretion into bile of unesterified cholesterol cannot be directly quantitated because of extensive exchange and equilibration between different pools of unesterified cholesterol. Plant sterols are structurally similar to cholesterol but because of poor intestinal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
1996-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520376318 |