Pharmacological and genetic modifications of somatic cholesterol do not substantially alter the course of CNS disease in Niemann–Pick C mice

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Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) is a neurodegenerative disorder with somatically altered cholesterol metabolism. The NPC1 gene has recently been cloned and shown to have sequences shared with known sterol-sensing proteins. We have used a mouse model with a disrupted Npc1 gene to study two cholesterol-lowering drugs (nifedipine and probucol) and the effects of introducing a null mutation in the low-density lipoprotein...

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