Quantitation of two pathways for cholesterol excretion from the brain in normal mice and mice with neurodegeneration

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1780-1789

  Xie, Chonglun ^a   Lund, Erik G ^a,b   Turley, Stephen D ^a   Russell, David W ^a   Dietschy, John M ^a  

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

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol 24 hydroxylase; Dementia; Glial cells; Neurons; Niemann Pick type C disease; Oxysterols; Sterol 27 hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 24 HYDROXYLASE; MYELIN; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MYELINATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIEMANN PICK C GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEROL METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 7-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP27A1; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEROID HYDROXYLASES;

EID: 0141459395     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M300164-JLR200     Document Type: Article

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