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Cholestanes

Known as: Cholestanes [Chemical/Ingredient], cholestane, cholestane compound 
Derivatives of the saturated steroid cholestane with methyl groups at C-18 and C-19 and an iso-octyl side chain at C-17.
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16,23-epoxycholestane triglycoside23-ethylidene-26-hydroxy-22-oxocholestane4,14-dimethylcholestane4,5-secocholestane
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Cholestane as a digestibility marker in the absorption of polyunsaturated fatty acid ethyl esters in Atlantic salmon
Salmonid fish require long-chain n−3 fatty acids in their diet. The digestibility of different chemical forms of fish oil fatty… 
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Brassinosteroid phytohormones: structure, bioactivity and applications
Brassinosteroids are a new class of plant hormones with a polyoxygenated steroid structure showing pronounced plant growth… 
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The effect of sterol structure on membrane lipid domains reveals how cholesterol can induce lipid domain formation.
Detergent-insoluble membrane domains, enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol, have been implicated in numerous biological… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Archean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes.
Molecular fossils of biological lipids are preserved in 2700-million-year-old shales from the Pilbara Craton, Australia… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Hydrophobic barriers of lipid bilayer membranes formed by reduction of water penetration by alkyl chain unsaturation and cholesterol.
The hydrophobicity profiles across phosphatidylcholine (PC)-cholesterol bilayer membranes were estimated in both frozen liposome… 
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Squalamine: an aminosterol antibiotic from the shark.
In recent years, a variety of low molecular weight antibiotics have been isolated from diverse animal species. These agents… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Invertebres marins du lagon neo-caledonien-V: Isolement et identification des metabolites d'une nouvelle espece de spongiaire, pseudaxinyssa cantharella
Resume Le fractionnement des extraits aqueux d'une Eponge recoltee en Nouvelle-Caledonie et nouvellement decrite, Pseudaxinyssa… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Regulation of intramitochondrial cholesterol transfer to side-chain cleavage cytochrome P-450 in rat adrenal gland.
Rat adrenal mitochondria accumulated cholesterol during ether stress in vivo when side-chain cleavage was inhibited by… 
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Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Cholesterol-phospholipid interaction in membranes. 1. Cholestane spin-label studies of phase behavior of cholesterol-phospholipid liposomes.
The effect of cholesterol concentration on the thermotropic phase behavior of aqueous phospholipid multi-bilayers was monitored… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Differential effects of cholesterol and lanosterol on artificial membranes.
The effects of cholesterol, 4,4-dimethylcholesterol, and lanosterol (4,4',14alpha-trimethyl-delta8,24-cholestadiene-3beta-ol) on… 
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