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Cholesterol Metabolism in the Animal Body

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THERE has been a considerable amount of recent work on the unsaponifiable fatty material of several types of animal tissue, and one of the results of this kind of experiment has been to throw some light on the changes which probably take place during life in the substance cholesterol (I), a ubiquitous constituent of animal cells.

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HASLEWOOD, G. Cholesterol Metabolism in the Animal Body. Nature 154, 29–30 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154029a0

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