November 1, 1981Experimental Biology and Medicine

Cholesterol Inhibition of Streptolysin O Toxicity for Myocardial Cells in Tissue Culture

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MFM. H. FISHERUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill EKE L KaplanBroad Institute LWLewis W. WannamakerAmerican Heart Association

Abstract

Cholesterol has been shown to inhibit the hemolytic activity and the immunogenicity of streptolysin O. It has been found that in tissue culture, cholesterol also protects spontaneously contracting rat myocardial cells from the cytotoxic injury caused by streptolysin O.

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FISHER et al. (1981) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a715e93f44fa9f079df29c4 https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-168-41266

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