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Sex steroids and lipoprotein metabolism
1TNO Institute for Prevention and Health, Gaubius Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
Lipoprotein metabolism is involved in atherogenesis. Female sex-hormones have substantial effects on both lipoprotein metabolism and the vessel wall. Cholesterol, one of the major lipids in lipoproteins, is both the substrate for, and the target of, the steroidal sex hormones.