Resistance to diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and gallstone formation in ACAT2-deficient mice

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1341-1347

  Buhman, Kimberly K ^a,b   Accad, Michel ^a,b,c   Novak, Sabine ^a   Choi, Rebekah S ^a   Wong, Jinny S ^b   Hamilton, Robert L ^b   Turley, Stephen ^d   Farese, Robert V ^a,b,c  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GALLSTONE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTESTINE; LIPID DIET; LIVER METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; GALLBLADDER; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LIPOPROTEINS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 0034529633     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/82153     Document Type: Article

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