Sitosterols
"Sitosterols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of sterols commonly found in plants and plant oils. Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-isomers have been characterized.
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D012855
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.247.222.857 D04.210.500.247.808.756.669 D10.570.938.795.669 D23.704.500.669
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sitosterols" by people in Profiles.
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Semova I, Levenson AE, Krawczyk J, Bullock K, Williams KA, Wadwa RP, Khoury PR, Kimball TR, Urbina EM, de Ferranti SD, Maahs DM, Dolan LM, Shah AS, Clish CB, Biddinger SB. Markers of cholesterol synthesis are elevated in adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes. Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 11; 21(7):1126-1131.
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Garvey WT, Grundy SM, Eckel R. Xanthogranulomatosis in an adult: lipid analysis of xanthomas and plasma. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1987 Jan; 16(1 Pt 2):183-7.