Overactivation of Intestinal SREBP2 in Mice Increases Serum Cholesterol

Ke Ma; Pooja Malhotra; Vinay Soni; Omar Hedroug; Fadi Annaba; Amish Dudeja; Le Shen; Jerrold R. Turner; Ekaterina A. Khramtsova; Seema Saksena; Pradeep K. Dudeja; Ravinder K. Gill; Waddah A. Alrefai

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084221

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Overactivation of Intestinal SREBP2 in Mice Increases Serum Cholesterol

Ke Ma ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Ma, Pooja Malhotra

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Pooja Malhotra ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ke Ma, Pooja Malhotra

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Vinay Soni,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Omar Hedroug,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Fadi Annaba,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Amish Dudeja,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Le Shen,

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Jerrold R. Turner,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Ekaterina A. Khramtsova,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Seema Saksena,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Pradeep K. Dudeja,

Affiliations Research and Development, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Ravinder K. Gill,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Waddah A. Alrefai

* E-mail: walrefai@uic.edu

Affiliations Research and Development, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Overactivation of Intestinal SREBP2 in Mice Increases Serum Cholesterol

Ke Ma,
Pooja Malhotra,
Vinay Soni,
Omar Hedroug,
Fadi Annaba,
Amish Dudeja,
Le Shen,
Jerrold R. Turner,
Ekaterina A. Khramtsova,
Seema Saksena

Published: January 20, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084221

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