Of cholesterol-free mice and men

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-375

  Brown, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLESTEROL; IMIPRAMINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; DIET; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 2642588423     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-200406000-00021     Document Type: Editorial

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