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Descriptor English: Cholesterol
Descriptor Spanish: Colesterol
Descriptor colesterol
Scope note: Principal esterol de todos los animales superiores. Se distribuye en los tejidos corporales, en especial en el cerebro y la médula espinal, así como en las grasas y aceites animales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Colesterol
Descriptor French: Cholestérol
Tree number(s): D04.210.500.247.222.284
D04.210.500.247.808.197
D10.570.938.208
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002784
Scope note: The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; /blood: consider also HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA and specifics; cholesterol granuloma: index CHOLESTEROL and GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogues et dérivés
AD administration et posologie
AE effets indésirables
AG agonistes
AN analyse
BI biosynthèse
BL sang
CF liquide cérébrospinal
CH composition chimique
CL classification
CS synthèse chimique
DF déficit
EC économie
GE génétique
HI histoire
IM immunologie
IP isolement et purification
ME métabolisme
PD pharmacologie
PH physiologie
PK pharmacocinétique
PO intoxication
RE effets des radiations
SD ressources et distribution
ST normes
TO toxicité
TU usage thérapeutique
UR urine
Entry Combination: antagonists & inhibitors:Anticholesteremic Agents
Registry Number: 97C5T2UQ7J
CAS Type 1 Name: Cholest-5-en-3-ol (3beta)-
Related: Embolie de cholestérol MeSH
Hypercholestérolémie MeSH
DeCS ID: 2834
Unique ID: D002784
NLM Classification: QU 95
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/05/28
Cholestérol - Preferred
Concept UI M0004268
Preferred term Cholestérol



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