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Cholesterol Esters

"Cholesterol Esters" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Fatty acid esters of cholesterol which constitute about two-thirds of the cholesterol in the plasma. The accumulation of cholesterol esters in the arterial intima is a characteristic feature of atherosclerosis.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cholesterol Esters" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cholesterol Esters" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 37 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1997
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.