Oxidation of cholesterol by rat liver mitochondria: effect of dietary fat

Rats were maintained on normal diets or on diets containing 20 per cent of corn oil (unsaturated, iodine number 127) or commercial shortening (saturated, iodine number 73) for 40 days. The liver mitochondria of the rats fed saturated fat oxidized cholesterol-26-C14 to C1402, to a much greater extent...

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Main Authors: David Kritchevsky, Ruth R. Kolman, Michael W. Whitehouse, Martha C. Cottrell, Ezra Staple
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1959-10-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520390970