Current textbooks give an inaccurate picture of the occurrence of cholesterol in plants and also of the role of plant sterols in the mammalian uptake of cholesterol.
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Citation
Behrman, E. J.; Gopalan, Venkat. J. Chem. Educ.2005 82 1791.
Keywords
Biochemistry; First-Year Undergraduate / General; General Public; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Metabolism; Misconceptions / Discrepant Events; Plant Chemistry; Public Understanding / Outreach; Second-Year Undergraduate; Steroids; Textbooks / Reference Books; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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