"Sitosterols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of sterols commonly found in plants and plant oils. Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-isomers have been characterized.
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D012855
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.247.222.857 D04.210.500.247.808.756.669 D10.570.938.795.669 D23.704.500.669
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sitosterols" by people in Profiles.
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Decreasing the Cholesterol Burden in Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia Children by Dietary Plant Stanol Esters. Nutrients. 2018 Dec 01; 10(12).
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Isolation and in silico prediction of potential drug-like compounds from Anethum sowa L. root extracts targeted towards cancer therapy. Comput Biol Chem. 2019 Feb; 78:242-259.
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A new antimicrobial sesquiterpene isolated from endophytic fungus Cytospora sp. from the Chinese mangrove plant Ceriops tagal. Nat Prod Res. 2020 May; 34(10):1404-1408.
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Call for an ezetimibe effectiveness test. Atherosclerosis. 2018 11; 278:334.
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ß-Sitosterol targets Trx/Trx1 reductase to induce apoptosis in A549 cells via ROS mediated mitochondrial dysregulation and p53 activation. Sci Rep. 2018 02 01; 8(1):2071.
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Serum 27-hydroxycholesterol in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis suggests alteration of cholesterol catabolism to bile acids via the acidic pathway. J Lipid Res. 1998 Dec; 39(12):2477-82.