Sitosterolemia Differential Diagnoses Workup - EMedicine Diagnosis sitosterolemia is a rare inherited plant sterol storage disease. Bhattacharyya and Connor first described this disease in 1974. The original report detailed 2 http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/948892-diagnosis
Phenotypic Heterogeneity Of Sitosterolemia. [J Lipid Res. 2004 PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15375183
Lipids Online Slides Sitosterolemia, Beta-sitosterolemia, Plant Developed by Baylor College of Medicine, Lipids Online provides upto-date resources for researchers, faculty, and clinicians in atherosclerosis and other lipid disorders. http://www.lipidsonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?q=sitosterolemia
Familial Hypercholesterolemia - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The related disease sitosterolemia, which has many similarities with FH and also features cholesterol accumulation in tissues, is due to ABCG5 and ABCG8 mutations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_hypercholesterolemia
Sitosterolemia This very rare disorder causes an accumulation of plant sterols in the blood. Left untreated, it can lead to coronary artery disease. http://rarediseases.about.com/b/2004/05/30/sitosterolemia.htm
Symptoms Of Sitosterolemia - WrongDiagnosis.com Symptoms of sitosterolemia including 7 medical symptoms and signs of sitosterolemia, alternative diagnoses, misdiagnosis, and correct diagnosis for sitosterolemia signs or http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/sitosterolemia/symptoms.htm
BioMed Central Full Text A Mouse Model Of Sitosterolemia Mice with targeted disruption of the sterolin2 gene have deficits in the secretion of cholesterol and increased plasma and tissue plant sterol levels. This mimics the rare http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/2/5
Lipid Disorders - Evaluation, Treatment And Research At The sitosterolemia Research Study Treatment with Ezetimibe (SCH-58235) If you have homozygous sitosterolemia, you are invited to participate in a study that will evaluate a new http://patientrecruitment.nhlbi.nih.gov/LipidDisorders.aspx
Ezetimibe Effectively Reduces Plasma Plant Sterols In Patients Ezetimibe Effectively Reduces Plasma Plant Sterols in Patients With sitosterolemia G. Salen, MD *; K. von Bergmann, MD *; D. L tjohann, PhD; P. Kwiterovich, MD; J. Kane, MD, PhD http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/109/8/966
Down-regulation Of Cholesterol Biosynthesis In Sitosterolemia Downregulation of cholesterol biosynthesis in sitosterolemia diminished activities of acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase http://www.jlr.org/content/39/1/44.full
Journal Of Clinical Investigation Monogenic In sitosterolemia, plasma levels of sitosterol are elevated more than 50fold, and approximately 15% of circulating and tissue sterols are derived from plants and shellfish . http://www.jci.org/articles/view/18925
Sitosterolemia Disorder; OMIM 210250 (Click to access OMIM database) Disorder sitosterolemia Also known as STSL, PHYTOSTEROLEMIA Clinical; Phenotype increased intestinal absorption http://www.biochemgenetics.ca/plainpeople/singleview.php?id=2410
Accumulation Of Dietary Cholesterol In Sitosterolemia Caused By PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11099417
Tuberous Xanthomas In Sitosterolemia - Alam - 2001 - Pediatric Murad Alam M.D. 1, Maria C. Garzon M.D. 2, Gerald Salen M.D. 3, Thomas J. Starc M.D., M.P.H. 2; Article first published online 25 DEC 2001. DOI 10.1046/j.15251470.2000.01817.x http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1046/j.1525-1470.2000.01817.x
Novel Donor Splice Site Mutation Of ABCG5 Gene In Sitosterolemia Abstract In a patient with sitosterolemia, we found two different mutations of the ATPbinding cassette, subfamily G, member 5 (ABCG5) gene. The first is a missense mutation http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ap/gm/2002/00000075/00000002/art03285
Accumulation Of Dietary Cholesterol In Sitosterolemia Caused By Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions or possibly that you are using a browser http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/290/5497/1771
Zetia User Reviews For Sitosterolemia At Drugs.com User Reviews for Zetia. The following information is NOT intended to endorse drugs or recommend therapy. While these reviews might be helpful, they are not a substitute for the http://www.drugs.com/comments/ezetimibe/zetia-for-sitosterolemia.html
A Detailed Hapmap Of The Sitosterolemia Locus Spanning 69 Kb Analysis of the STSL locus reveals differences in variant single nucleotide polymorphisms, haplotypes, and allele frequencies between Caucasians and AfricanAmericans http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/7/13
