Rats were fed cholesterol in order to block hepatic cholesterol synthesis, and their intestinal lymph ducts were cannulated. Experiments with these rats showed that cholesterol synthesized in the intestinal wall enters into the circulating cholesterol pool. The quantitative significance of this source of serum cholesterol has not been established.
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