Diurnal variation of cholesterol precursors squalene and methyl sterols in human plasma lipoproteins.
Animal cholesterol synthesis shows a marked diurnal variation, a phenomenon, at the moment, not known to occur in man. Since cholesterol precursors in serum reflect overall cholesterol synthesis in many conditions, a 24-hr profile of squalene and methyl sterols was studied in plasma lipoproteins in...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier
1982-03-01
|
Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002222752038144X |