This study aimed to investigate the long-term effects of phytosterols (PS) intake on systemic and tissue-specific lipid metabolism in C57BL/6J mice. Healthy male C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided in
Serum lipoproteins were separated by size exclusion chromatography, and the concentration of total (TC) and unesterified (UC) cholesterol, phospholipids (PL), and triglycerides (TG) was determined by
The data are averaged values from 11 randomly selected normolipidemic subjects. aThe density fraction of so-called preβ-HDL (1.210–1.400 g/ml) was not directly measured in the experiment. We therefore
