ATVB in focus: Role of ABCA1 in cellular cholesterol efflux and reverse cholesterol transport

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 710-711

  Tall, Alan R ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; ABC TRANSPORTER A1; CD36 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SCARB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR B;

ATHEROGENESIS; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; EDITORIAL; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; LIPID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANTIGENS, CD36; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, LIPOPROTEIN; RECEPTORS, SCAVENGER; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS B;

EID: 0038705114     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000068683.51375.59     Document Type: Editorial

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