plant sterols

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• plant sterol — A plant based compound that can compete with dietary cholesterol to be absorbed by the intestines, resulting in lower blood cholesterol levels. Plant sterols may have some effect in cancer prevention. Also called phytosterol …   English dictionary of cancer terms

• Plant defense against herbivory — Poison ivy produces urushiol to protect the plant from herbivores. In humans this chemical produces an allergic skin rash, known as urushiol induced contact dermatitis …   Wikipedia

• steroids, plant —    The previous subject is obviously an endless one, but as this is the glossary of an herbal nature, let me assure you, virtually no plants have a direct steroid hormone mimicking effect. There are a few notable exceptions with limited… …   Herbal-medical glossary

• Sitosterolemia — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 29796 ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = 210250 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = ped eMedicineTopic = 2110 MeshID = Sitosterolemia (also known as phytosterolemia) is a rare autosomal recessively… …   Wikipedia

• Phytosterol — Phytosterols (also called plant sterols) are a group of steroid alcohols, phytochemicals naturally occurring in plants. They are white powders with mild, characteristic odor, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohols. They have many applications …   Wikipedia

• Cholesterol — IUPAC name …   Wikipedia

• Percy Lavon Julian — Infobox Person name = Percy Lavon Julian image size = 250px caption = Julian circa 1940–1950 birth date = birth date|1899|4|11|mf=y birth place = Montgomery, Alabama death date = death date and age|1975|4|19|1899|4|11|mf=y death place = Waukegan …   Wikipedia

• Sterolin — protein Name = ATP binding cassette, sub family G (WHITE), member 5 (sterolin 1) caption = width = HGNCid = 13886 Symbol = ABCG5 AltSymbols = EntrezGene = 64240 OMIM = 605459 RefSeq = NM 022436 UniProt = Q9H222 PDB = ECnumber = Chromosome = 2 Arm …   Wikipedia

• Sitosterolemia — A genetic disease involving lipids (fats) in which there is excessive intestinal absorption of dietary sterols and impaired clearance of these sterols from the liver into the bile. These sterols include cholesterol and the plant sterol sitosterol …   Medical dictionary

• sitosterol — si·tos·ter·ol sī täs tə .rȯl, sə , .rōl n any of several sterols that are widespread esp. in plant products (as wheat germ or soybean oil) and are used as starting materials for the synthesis of steroid hormones * * * si·tos·ter·ol (si… …   Medical dictionary

• Phytosterine — Strukturformel von Stigmasterin. Strukturformel von β Sitosterin …   Deutsch Wikipedia