Possible mechanisms underlying the cholesterol-raising effect of the coffee diterpene cafestol

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-45

  De Roos, Baukje ^a   Katan, Martijn B ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFESTOL; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN; DITERPENE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COFFEE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEINS; COFFEE; DITERPENES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033042901     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199902000-00008     Document Type: Short Survey

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