"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sitosterols" by people in Profiles.
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Chase TH, Lyons BL, Bronson RT, Foreman O, Donahue LR, Burzenski LM, Gott B, Lane P, Harris B, Ceglarek U, Thiery J, Wittenburg H, Thon JN, Italiano JE, Johnson KR, Shultz LD. The mouse mutation "thrombocytopenia and cardiomyopathy" (trac) disrupts Abcg5: a spontaneous single gene model for human hereditary phytosterolemia/sitosterolemia. Blood. 2010 Feb 11; 115(6):1267-76.
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Alhassan S, Reese KA, Mahurin J, Plaisance EP, Hilson BD, Garner JC, Wee SO, Grandjean PW. Blood lipid responses to plant stanol ester supplementation and aerobic exercise training. Metabolism. 2006 Apr; 55(4):541-9.
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Calder?n AI, Terreaux C, Schenk K, Pattison P, Burdette JE, Pezzuto JM, Gupta MP, Hostettmann K. Isolation and structure elucidation of an isoflavone and a sesterterpenoic acid from Henriettella fascicularis. J Nat Prod. 2002 Dec; 65(12):1749-53.