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Cholesterol metabolism-physiological regulation and pathophysiological deregulation by the endoplasmic reticulum

Clemens Röhrl1, Herbert Stangl2

  • 1Department of Medical Chemistry, Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, Medical University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 10, 1090, Vienna, Austria.

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
|March 1, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
AtherosclerosisEndoplasmic reticulum stressTranscription factorsUnfolded protein responseendoplasmic reticulum functioncholesterol homeostasismetabolic disorderstranscriptional regulation

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