Cholesterol-lowering effect of plant ste
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Ingmar Wester
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Plant sterols (phytosterols) are a group of compounds structurally very similar to cholesterol (Fig. ). The main plant sterols, sitosterol and campesterol differ from the structure of cholesterol by an ethyl and a methyl group, respectively, at C-24 in the side chain. These small differences have a