Increased sphingomyelin content of plasma lipoproteins in apolipoprotein E knockout mice reflects combined production and catabolic defects and enhances reactivity with mammalian sphingomyelinase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 905-912

  Jeong, Tae Sook ^a   Schissel, Scott L ^a,b   Tabas, Ira ^a,b   Pownall, Henry J ^c   Tall, Alan R ^a   Jiang, Xian Cheng ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E; Atherosclerosis; Phosphatidylcholine; Sphingomyelin; Sphingomyelinase

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CARBON 14; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; RNA; SPHINGOMYELIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TRANSFERASE; TRITIUM; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032520147     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI870     Document Type: Article

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