Researchers explore how natural compounds in traditional Chinese medicine can modulate cholesterol metabolism to combat ...

Following digestion and absorption of dietary fat, TG and cholesterol are packaged to form chylomicrons in the epithelial cells of the intestines. Chylomicrons circulate through the intestinal ...

Medications alone aren't the only means to lower cholesterol levels. Some over-the-counter alternative high cholesterol treatments can help -- but others don't fulfill their promise. "While there ...

necessary for the synthesis of triglycerides and cholesterol esters—which accumulate pathologically in the liver in SLD—and also for bile acids, which favors the elimination of cholesterol ...

“CETP exchanges the cholesterol esters in the core of HDL particles” to other proteins, the NIH explains. Thus, HDL is anti-inflammatory and reduces “the size of plaque” in the arterie ...

Recently, the research team led by Professor Zhang Zhongtao and Professor Yao Hongwei from the General Surgery Center at ...