Effects of long-term treatment with taurine in mice fed a high-fat diet: Improvement in cholesterol metabolism and vascular lipid accumulation by taurine

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 483, Issue , 2000, Pages 177-186

  Murakami, Shigeru ^a   Kondo, Yukiko ^a   Nagate, Takatoshi ^a  

^a TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 7ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 7-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; TAURINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034585557     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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