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Keisuke Matsuoka1, Yoshimi Kuranaga, Yoshikiyo Moroi
1Chemistry and Physics of Condensed Matter, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyushu University-Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, 810-8560, Fukuoka, Japan.
Abstract:
The aqueous solubility of cholesterol was determined over the temperature range from 288.2 to 318.2 K with intervals of 5 K by the enzymatic method. The solubility was (3.7+/-0.3)x10(-8) mol dm(-3) (average +/- S.D.) at 308.2 K. The maximum additive concentrations of cholesterol into the aqueous micellar solutions of sodium deoxycholate (NaDC), sodium ursodeoxycholate (NaUDC), and sodium cholate (NaC) were spectrophotometrically determined at different temperatures. The cholesterol solubility increased in the order of NaUDC
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