Dietary xenosterols lead to infertility and loss of abdominal adipose tissue in sterolin-deficient mice[S]
The investigation of the human disease sitosterolemia (MIM 210250) has shed light not only on the pathways by which dietary sterols may traffic but also on how the mammalian body rids itself of cholesterol and defends against xenosterols. Two genes, ABCG5 and ABCG8, located at the sitosterolemia loc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2013-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520428056 |