Oxysterols: Functional significance in fetal development and the maintenance of normal retinal function

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-288

  Javitt, Norman B ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450; Oxysterols; Photooxidation; Retina; Sonic hedgehog protein

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; 7 OXOCHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTANETRIOL 26 MONOOXYGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 46A1; OXYSTEROL; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP27A1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; LIGHT; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; RETINA; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; STEROID HYDROXYLASES; STEROLS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 34248343047     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOL.0b013e328133851e     Document Type: Review

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