"Phytosterols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of organic compounds known as sterols or STEROIDS derived from plants.
| Descriptor ID |
D010840
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.247.808.756 D10.570.938.795 D23.704.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Phytosterols- Phytosterols
- Plant Sterol
- Sterol, Plant
- Plant Steroid
- Steroid, Plant
- Plant Steroids
- Steroids, Plant
- Phytosteroid
- Plant Sterols
- Sterols, Plant
- Phytosterol
- Phytosteroids
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phytosterols" by people in Profiles.
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Valerio M, Liu HB, Heffner R, Zivadinov R, Ramanathan M, Weinstock-Guttman B, Awad AB. Phytosterols ameliorate clinical manifestations and inflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Inflamm Res. 2011 May; 60(5):457-65.
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Chen J, Batta A, Zheng S, Fitzgibbon WR, Ullian ME, Yu H, Tso P, Salen G, Patel SB. The missense mutation in Abcg5 gene in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) segregates with phytosterolemia but not hypertension. BMC Genet. 2005 Jul 18; 6:40.
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Klett EL, Lu K, Kosters A, Vink E, Lee MH, Altenburg M, Shefer S, Batta AK, Yu H, Chen J, Klein R, Looije N, Oude-Elferink R, Groen AK, Maeda N, Salen G, Patel SB. A mouse model of sitosterolemia: absence of Abcg8/sterolin-2 results in failure to secrete biliary cholesterol. BMC Med. 2004 Mar 24; 2:5.
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Tapiero H, Townsend DM, Tew KD. Phytosterols in the prevention of human pathologies. Biomed Pharmacother. 2003 Oct; 57(8):321-5.
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Yu H, Pandit B, Klett E, Lee MH, Lu K, Helou K, Ikeda I, Egashira N, Sato M, Klein R, Batta A, Salen G, Patel SB. The rat STSL locus: characterization, chromosomal assignment, and genetic variations in sitosterolemic hypertensive rats. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2003 Jun 03; 3:4.