Acyl CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase genes and knockout mice

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-123

  Farese Jr , Robert V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; STEROL;

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESTERIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 14444280650     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199804000-00007     Document Type: Short Survey

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