No association between plasma levels of plant sterols and atherosclerosis in mice and men

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2326-2332

  Wilund, Kenneth R ^a,c   Yu, Liqing ^a   Xu, Fang ^a   Vega, Gloria L ^b   Grundy, Scott M ^b   Cohen, Jonathan C ^a,b   Hobbs, Helen H ^a,b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; ATP binding cassette transporters; Plant sterols; Sitosterolemia

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CALCIUM; CAMPESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITOSTEROLEMIA; STEROL METABOLISM; STORAGE DISEASE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED AKR; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLANT EXTRACTS; STEROLS;

EID: 10644258089     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000149140.00499.92     Document Type: Article

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