Development and partial metabolic characterization of a dietary cholesterol-resistant colony of rabbits.

A colony of New Zealand white rabbits has been developed which, when fed a cholesterol-supplemented diet, exhibit unusual resistance to hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis, disorders usually observed in normal cholesterol-fed rabbits. When resistant rabbits (RT) were fed a normal low cholestero...

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Main Authors: M L Overturf, S A Smith, D Hewett-Emmett, D S Loose-Mitchell, M R Soma, A M Gotto, Jr, J D Morrisett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1989-02-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520383863