A clear picture of lipoprotein metabolism is essential for understanding the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. Many students are taught that low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol is "bad" and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol is "good." This misconception leads to students thinking that lipoproteins are types of cholesterol rather than transporters of lipid. Describing lipoproteins as partic...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: NP: Nano Particle; LDL: Low Density Lipoproteins ; HDL: High Density Lipoproteins ; SLDL: Synthetic Low Density Lipoproteins; LDL-Rl: Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor ; SR-Bi: Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I; DTPA: Diethylene Triaminepenta Acetic Acid; SPECT: Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography; MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imagin...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: NP: Nano Particle; LDL: Low Density Lipoproteins ; HDL: High Density Lipoproteins ; SLDL: Synthetic Low Density Lipoproteins; LDL-Rl: Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor ; SR-Bi: Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I; DTPA: Diethylene Triaminepenta Acetic Acid; SPECT: Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography; MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imagin...

At onset of egg-laying in the chicken, plasma levels of apolipoprotein VLDL-II (apoII) increase dramatically, suggesting a function of apoII in yolk deposition of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins. Thus, the possibility that this female-specific homodimeric protein (Mr of subunit, 9500) is recognized by the oocyte receptor for low and very low density lipoproteins was investigated. ApoII was purif...

Fat body cells of insects exhibit a high-affinity lipoprotein binding site at their cell surfaces. In the present study, the lipoprotein binding site was identified as an endocytotic receptor involved in receptor-mediated uptake of its lipoprotein ligand, high density lipophorin. After an initial period of high endocytotic uptake of high density lipophorin in the adult stage, this process stron...