title: The transport of esterified cholesterol in plasma high density lipoproteins of human subjects: a mathematical model.
abstract: The pattern of labeling of free and esterified cholesterol in the plasma high-density lipoproteins after an intravenous injection of [3H]-mevalonic acid has been examined in six human subjects with a variety of plasma lipoprotein phenotypes. Attempts have been made to fit these data to theoretical models of high-density lipoprotein esterified cholesterol transport constructed on the basis of previous experimental observation. The first model, which assumed that the high-density lipoprotein esterified cholesterol transport constructed on the basis of previous experimental observation. The first model, which assumed that the high-density lipoprotein esterified cholesterol comprised a single homogeneous pool, was incompatible with the observed data. The second model assumed a two-pool model in which all of the plasma esterified cholesterol was produced in a small, rapidly turning over subfraction of the high-density lipoproteins. From this pool it was assumed that esterified cholesterol was transferred to other lipoprotein fractions, including transfer to a larger and much more slowly turning over subfraction of the high density lipoproteins. The second model was quite compatible with the observed data. Furthermore, the calculated net transport of esterified cholesterol through the fast turning over pool was in a range similar to that reported elsewhere for whole plasma. It has been concluded that the two-pool model not only fits the experimental data, but also accords well with previously documented observations of plasma esterified cholesterol transport.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001692:Biological Transport; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D002788:Cholesterol Esters / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008798:Mevalonic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D002788:Cholesterol Esters; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL; D002784:Cholesterol; D008798:Mevalonic Acid