Team determines how cholesterol moves inside cells

This study may help pave the way for new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for these diseases.AUTHORSDr. Peter Totonoz, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Jaspreet Sandhu, a student in pathology and laboratory medicine, are the study ’s senior author and first author, respectively. Other UCLA-affiliated authors are Xu Xiao, Thomas Weston, Alessandra Ferrari, Jose Orozco, David Strugatsky, Stephen Lee, Cuiwen He, Cynthia Hong, Laurent Bentolila, and Stephen Young. Non-UCLA authors are Shiqian Li, Louise Fairall, Simon Pfisterer , Jennifer Gurnett, Dipti Vashi, Celine Hartman, Haibo Jiang, Alberto Gatta, Tim Levine, Annie Ferng, Richard Lee, David Ford, Elina Ikonen and John Schwabe.  JOURNALThestudy was published in the journal  Cell.FUNDINGThis work was funded by National Institutes of Health  grants; a P. Whitcome Fellowship; the Academy of Finland; the Sigrid Juselius Foundation; and the Helsinki Institute of Life Science Imaging Unit and Biomedicum Functional Genomics Unit, both at the University of Helsinki.
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