Increasing hepatic cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase reduces plasma cholesterol concentrations in normocholesterolemic and hypercholesterolemic rabbits

Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 882-887

  Xu, Guorong ^a   Salen, Gerald ^a,b   Shefer, Sarah ^a   Ness, Gene C ^c   Nguyen, Lien B ^a   Tint, G Stephen ^a,b   Parker, Thomas S ^d   Roberts, Jeremy ^d   Batta, Ashok K ^a   Chen, Thomas S ^b   Zhao, Zhihong ^c   Kong, Xianglin ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; CHOLESTEROL 7ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; GLYCODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BILE FLOW; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL LIVER LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIVER METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

EID: 16044372347     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v24.pm0008855192     Document Type: Article

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