Cholestenoic acid is an important elimination product of cholesterol in the retina: Comparison of retinal cholesterol metabolism with that in the brain

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 594-603

  Mast, Natalia ^a   Reem, Rachel ^a   Bederman, Ilya ^b   Huang, Suber ^a   Dipatre, Pier Luigi ^c,d   Bjorkhem, Ingemar ^e   Pikuleva, Irina A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

24S HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 24S HYDROXYSTEROL; 26 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTENOIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; OXYSTEROL; PREGNENOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 24 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 24-HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 3 HYDROXY 5 CHOLESTENOIC ACID; 3-HYDROXY-5-CHOLESTENOIC ACID; CHOLESTANETRIOL 26 MONOOXYGENASE; CHOLESTEROL 24 HYDROXYLASE; CHOLESTEROL 24-HYDROXYLASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); DRUG DERIVATIVE; STEROID MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CADAVER; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; STEROL ANALYSIS; AGED; ANIMAL; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP27A1; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHOLESTEROLS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; STEROID HYDROXYLASES;

EID: 79952465940     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6021     Document Type: Article

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