Key result
Chylomicron remnant accumulation in rabbits suggests cholesterol-rich lipoproteins are a product rather than precursor of atherogenesis.
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Challenges traditional causality assumptions in atherogenesis; hypothesis-generating for human lipoprotein studies and requires prospective validation.
D.B. Zilversmit (1976) studied Atherogenesis. Cholesterol feeding was evaluated on Accumulation of cholesterol in atheromatous lesions. Chylomicron remnant accumulation in cholesterol-fed rabbits suggests that plasma cholesterol-rich lipoproteins may be a product rather than a precursor of the atherogenic process.
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