"Sterols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Steroids with a hydroxyl group at C-3 and most of the skeleton of cholestane. Additional carbon atoms may be present in the side chain. (IUPAC Steroid Nomenclature, 1987)
| Descriptor ID |
D013261
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.247.808 D10.570.938
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sterols" by people in Profiles.
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Sterol targeting drugs reveal life cycle stage-specific differences in trypanosome lipid rafts. Sci Rep. 2017 08 22; 7(1):9105.
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Brain sterol dysregulation in sporadic AD and MCI: relationship to heme oxygenase-1. J Neurochem. 2009 Aug; 110(4):1241-53.
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The osteogenic transcription factor runx2 controls genes involved in sterol/steroid metabolism, including CYP11A1 in osteoblasts. Mol Endocrinol. 2009 Jun; 23(6):849-61.
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Discordant expression of the sterol pathway in lens underlies simvastatin-induced cataracts in Chbb: Thom rats. J Lipid Res. 2003 Jan; 44(1):198-211.