Studies in cholestrol metabolism
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Barry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-04T08:41:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-04T08:41:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1958 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-04-08T09:29:32Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The biochemistry of the steroids is of unique interest; no other group of relatively simple substances plays so versatile a role in biology. On the one hand are many highly potent steroids occurring in minute quantities e.g. sex hormones, corticosteroids, the vitamins D and the cardiac glycosides. In sharp contrast are certain sterols, exemplified in the animal kingdom by cholesterol - familiar, abundant, easily determined, yet singularly obscure in their physiological significance. In some restricted fields the functions of cholesterol are known. It is a precursor of the adrenocortical hormones (perhaps not an obligatory one ), and is probably important in the biosynthesis of sex hormones too. Present in the skin is 7-dehydrocholesterol, converted to vitamins D by ultraviolet light. Cholesteryl esters are found in large quantities, together with sphingomyelin, in the myelin sheaths of nerve fibres, where these lipids may have an insulating function necessary at least for saltatory conduction. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Lewis, B. (1958). <i>Studies in cholestrol metabolism</i>. (). ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. Retrieved from | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Lewis, Barry. <i>"Studies in cholestrol metabolism."</i> ., ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 1958. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lewis, B. 1958. Studies in cholestrol metabolism. . ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Lewis, Barry AB - The biochemistry of the steroids is of unique interest; no other group of relatively simple substances plays so versatile a role in biology. On the one hand are many highly potent steroids occurring in minute quantities e.g. sex hormones, corticosteroids, the vitamins D and the cardiac glycosides. In sharp contrast are certain sterols, exemplified in the animal kingdom by cholesterol - familiar, abundant, easily determined, yet singularly obscure in their physiological significance. In some restricted fields the functions of cholesterol are known. It is a precursor of the adrenocortical hormones (perhaps not an obligatory one ), and is probably important in the biosynthesis of sex hormones too. Present in the skin is 7-dehydrocholesterol, converted to vitamins D by ultraviolet light. Cholesteryl esters are found in large quantities, together with sphingomyelin, in the myelin sheaths of nerve fibres, where these lipids may have an insulating function necessary at least for saltatory conduction. DA - 1958 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Metabolism KW - cholesterole LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 1958 T1 - Studies in cholestrol metabolism TI - Studies in cholestrol metabolism UR - ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11427/32034 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Lewis B. Studies in cholestrol metabolism. []. ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 1958 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Public Health and Family Medicine | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Metabolism | |
| dc.subject | cholesterole | |
| dc.title | Studies in cholestrol metabolism | |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral |