Nature 184, 1872 - 1873 (12 December 1959); doi:10.1038/1841872a0

Sterol-Balance Experiments in Humans

HARALD SCHÖN

Medizinische Universitäts-Klinik, Erlangen.

THE application of phytosterols and especially of sitosterol for the therapy of hypercholesterolæmia¹ has brought up again the question of the absorption of sterols. Surprisingly, not many sterol absorption experiments in humans have been performed until now with the exception of absorption experiments with cholesterol^2–4. We therefore examined the apparent absorption in humans of -sitosterol, mixed soya sterols, stigmasterol acetate, sitosterol stearate, and cholesterol.

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