title: Is cholesterol good or bad for your brain?--NMDARs have a say.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour and Centre for Nervous System Disorders, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. lonnie.wollmuth@stonybrook.edu.
authors.forename: Lonnie P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Wollmuth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000502:physiology*; D002789:Cholesterol Oxidase / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology*; D019821:Simvastatin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; D002784:Cholesterol; D019821:Simvastatin; D002789:Cholesterol Oxidase
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