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Free cholesterol not carried by lipoproteins in human serum

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Considerable amounts of nonesterified cholesterol were found in human serum freed from lipoproteins. This cholesterol, when incubated with synaptosomal plasma membranes of dog brain, evokes changes of the ouabain-sensitive ATPase activity, as the exogenously added cholesterol does.

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  1. Department of Experimental Physiology, University of Athens Medical School, 609, Athens, Greece

    G. Deliconstantinos

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Acknowledgments. I am most grateful to Professor S.G.A. Alivisatos for useful suggestions during the preparation of this manuscript. Appreciation is expressed to Miss K. Anastasopoulou for the electrophoretic runs of lipoproteins.

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Deliconstantinos, G. Free cholesterol not carried by lipoproteins in human serum. Experientia 39, 748–750 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01990306

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