Lipoprotein Metabolism

ISBN-13: 9783540076353 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 160 str.

H. Greten

Opis

Symposium on Lipoprotein Metabolism, held in Heidelberg, September 10-13, 1975

Spis treści

I. Lipolytic Enzymes.- Lipases- and Lipoproteins.- Human Postheparin Plasma Lipolytic Activities.- Physiologic Implications of the Interaction between Lipoprotein Lipase and Spme Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans.- Reversible Activation-Deactivation of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase and Observations on Its Relation to Lipoprotein Lipase.- Recent Studies of the Role of the Lecithin-Cholesterol Acyltransferase Reaction in Plasma Lipoprotein Metabolism.- II. Interconversion and Turnover of Plasma Lipoproteins.- Metabolism of Very Low Density Lipoproteins.- Low Density Lipoprotein Metabolism and Cholesterol Synthesis in Familial Homozygous Hypercholesterolemia: Influence of Portacaval Shunt Surgery.- The Composition, Structure, and Metabolism of High Density Lipoprotein.- Metabolism of Lipid and Protein Components of Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins in Rats and Humans.- Lipid Composition of the Major Human Serum Lipoprotein Density Classes in Different Types of Hyperlipoproteinemia.- III. Intracellular Lipoprotein Metabolism.- Role of the LDL Receptor in the Regulation of Cholesterol and Lipoprotein Metabolism.- Binding, Uptake, and Catabolism of Low Density (LDL) and High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) by Cultured Smooth Muscle Cells.- Role of Serum Lipoproteins in the Transport of Cellular Cholesterol.- Structure-Function Relationships of Lipoproteins in Tangier Disease.- IVSitosterol Metabolism.- Effects of Low Dose Phytosterols on Cholesterol Absorption in Man.- Effects of Sitosterol Therapy on Plasma Lipid and Lipoprotein Concentrations.- Sitosterol in Type II Hyperlipoproteinemia.- V. Special Lectures.- Carbon 13 NMR-Spectroscopic Studies on Liposomes and Human High Density Lipoproteins.- Molecular Association of Lipids and Proteins in the Plasma Lipoproteins: A Review.