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Genetic demonstration of intestinal NPC1L1 as a major determinant of hepatic cholesterol and blood atherogenic lipoprotein levels.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Dec 2014
Xie Ping, Zhu Hongling, Jia Lin, Ma Yinyan, Tang Weiqing, Wang Youlin, Xue Bingzhong, Shi Hang, Yu Liqing
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OBJECTIVE: The correlation between intestinal cholesterol absorption values and plasma low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels remains controversial. Niemann-Pick-C1-Like 1 (NPC1L1) is essential for intestinal cholesterol absorption, and is the target of ezetimibe, a cholesterol absorp...
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