Acyl-coenzyme A:cholesteryl acyltransferase 2

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-95

  Joyce, Charles ^a   Skinner, Kelly ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a   Rudel, Lawrence L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATHEROGENESIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; INTESTINE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MACACA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032916806     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199904000-00002     Document Type: Review

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