Comparative studies on the substrate specificity of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase towards the molecular species of phosphatidylcholine in the plasma of 14 vertebrates

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-122

  Subbaiah, Papasani V ^a   Liu, Ming ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

arachidonic acid; atherosclerosis susceptibility; cholesteryl ester composition; positional specificity

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CHICKEN; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOG; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHICKENS; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030034577     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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