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Science 16 February 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4074, pp. 702 - 704
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4074.702
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Cholesterol: Vitamin C Controls Its Transformation to Bile Acids

Emil Ginter 1

1 Institute of Human Nutrition Research, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Cholesterol accumulates in the blood serum and in the liver of guinea pigs with chronic latent vitamin C deficiency. The reason for this is the decreased rate of transformation of cholesterol to bile acids in the liver of animals deficient in vitamin C. A significant direct correlation exists between the vitamin C concentration in the liver and the rate of cholesterol transformation to bile acids.


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