Phytosterol ester processing in the small intestine: Impact on cholesterol availability for absorption and chylomicron cholesterol incorporation in healthy humans

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1256-1264

  Amiot, Marie Josèphe ^a,b   Knol, Diny ^d   Cardinault, Nicolas ^a,b   Nowicki, Marion ^a,c   Bott, Romain ^a,c   Antona, Claudine ^a,c   Borel, Patrick ^a,c   Bernard, Jean Paul ^e   Duchateau, Guus ^d   Lairon, Denis ^a,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c ERL 1025   (Netherlands)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

Author keywords

Campesterol; Hepta deuterated cholesterol; Isotope enrichment; Micelles; Sitostanol; Sitosterol

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHYLOMICRON; CHYLOMICRON CHOLESTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL ESTER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DUODENUM; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID ABSORPTION; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID HYDROLYSIS; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOLYSIS; LIQUID; MALE; MEAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SMALL INTESTINE ABSORPTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOLESTEROL; CHYLOMICRONS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEUTERIUM; DIGESTION; DUODENUM; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOSTEROLS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 79955992688     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M013730     Document Type: Article

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