Proportions of cholesterol precursors (squalene, delta 8-cholestenol, desmosterol and lathosterol), plant sterols (campesterol and sitosterol) and cholestanol to cholesterol in serum were measured before and serially after liver transplantation in eight patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)
BACKGROUND
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cholesterol metabolism is associated with serum adipokines and inflammatory markers.
METHODS
In fifty-eight subjects with impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance and features of the metabolic syndrome cholesterol
In multiple sclerosis (MS) a process of white matter degradation leading to demyelination is observed. Oxidative stress, inflammation, apoptosis, necrosis and/or autophagy result together into a progressive loss of oligodendrocytes. 7-ketocholesterol (7KC), found increased in the cerebrospinal fluid
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