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Disruption of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene in mice. II. Bile acid deficiency is overcome by induction of oxysterol 7alpha-hydroxylase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Jul 1996
Schwarz M, Lund E G, Setchell K D, Kayden H J, Zerwekh J E, Björkhem I, Herz J, Russell D W
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Past experiments and current paradigms of cholesterol homeostasis suggest that cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase plays a crucial role in sterol metabolism by controlling the conversion of cholesterol into bile acids. Consistent with this conclusion, we show in the accompanying paper that mice deficient in cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (Cyp7-/- mice) exhibit a complex phenotype consisting of abnormal lipid...
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