A surgical model to study in vivo efflux of cholesterol from porcine aorta Evidence for cholesteryl ester transfer through the aortic wall

We describe a surgical procedure in pigs which makes it possible to follow the influx into, the penetration through and the efflux from the arterial wall of labeled lipoproteins. After 4 h exposure of the luminal side of the arterial wall to labeled lipoproteins, labeled esterified cholesterol was f...

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