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Action of Plant Sterol Intervention on Sterol Kinetics in Hypercholesterolemic Men with High versus Low Basal Circulatory Plant Sterol Concentrations

Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2011
The relationship between plant sterol (PS) absorption and circulatory concentrations with cholesterol absorption and biosynthesis during PS consumption has yet to be clearly elucidated in humans. It is therefore essential to examine campesterol, β-sitosterol, and cholesterol absorption and cholesterol fractional synthesis rate (FSR) following PS ...
Hai L, Zhao, Adrielle H, Houweling, Catherine A, Vanstone, Stephanie, Jew, Elke A, Trautwein, Guus S M J E, Duchateau, Peter J H, Jones   +6 more
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Plant sterols and blood lipid levels

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 2002
Plant sterols have recently been recommended by the National Cholesterol Education Panel for use with the more traditional approaches of limiting saturated fat and cholesterol intakes, maintaining a healthy body weight and engaging in regular exercise, as a non-pharmacological approach to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.
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Cholesterol-lowering action of plant sterols

Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 1999
Plant sterols have an extended history of use as cholesterol-lowering agents. Until the 1970s, the principal interest in plant sterols lay in effects of sitosterol, but over the past decade interest has reemerged in using plant sterols in functional foods.
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[Plant sterols and stanols].

Therapeutische Umschau. Revue therapeutique, 2007
Plant sterols and stanols are similar in chemical structure to cholesterol, differing in their side chain configuration. The mechanism by which they lower cholesterol is thought to involve inhibition of cholesterol absorption. A number of products containing plant sterols are now available.
J, Puspa, H U, Klör
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Sterols as regulators of plant embryogenesis

Trends in Plant Science, 2000
suggests that the two genes function like their yeast homologs. The sterol biosynthetic pathway consists of a common upstream series of events followed by a downstream branch forming a BRspecific pathway. SMTs and C-14 sterol reductases are thought to catalyze reactions within the common part of the pathway.
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Plant Sterols in Soybean Hulls

Journal of Food Science, 1990
ABSTRACT Using gas chromatography techniques after lipid extraction, soybean hulls were analyzed for their plant sterol components. Soybean hulls contained 7.46% and 2.02% moisture and lipid components, respectively. Three plant sterols, campestrol, stigmasterol, and β‐sitosterol, were quantified in the ratios of 1: 1.5: 2. The use of
N. IBRAHIM, R.K. PURI, S. KAPILA, N. UNKLESBAY   +3 more
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Functions of sterols in plants

Lipids, 1971
AbstractSterols have at least three functions in animals: they may act as precursors of other steroids, as hormones and as membrane components. The author advances the hypothesis that sterols have similar functions in plants.
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The Biochemistry of Plant Sterols

1977
Publisher Summary Plants are a diverse group of organisms that differ from animals by not possessing a nervous system. They can be grouped into two great categories: those with and those without photosynthetic capacity. The photosynthetic group is comprised by four subgroups: the autotrophic bacteria; the algae, including the phytoflagellates, which ...
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The Biosynthesis of Plant Sterols

1977
The great variety of plant sterols and related compounds have for many years been a source of interest to natural products chemists because of the challenges they have offered in structural determination and development of analytical techniques. Interest in the biosynthesis of animal sterols spans the past thirty years, but plant sterol biosynthesis ...
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Plant Sterols

2011
P.J.H. Jones, T.C. Rideout
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