Sex steroids and lipoprotein metabolism.
Lipoprotein metabolism is involved in atherogenesis. Female sex-hormones have substantial effects on both lipoprotein metabolism and the vessel wall. Cholesterol, one of the major lipids in lipoproteins, is both the substrate for, and the target of, the steroidal sex hormones.
TNO Institute for Prevention and Health, Gaubius Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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D003278:Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones; D008074:Lipoproteins