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Cholesterol-lowing effect of taurine in HepG2 cell

BACKGROUND: A number of studies indicate that taurine promotes cholesterol conversion to bile acids by upregulating CYP7A1 gene expression. Few in vitro studies are concerned the concentration change of cholesterol and its product of bile acids, and the molecular mechanism of CYP7A1 induction by tau...

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Autores principales: Guo, Junxia, Gao, Ya, Cao, Xuelian, Zhang, Jing, Chen, Wen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5356372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28302129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12944-017-0444-3