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MeSH Heading: Cholesterol
Tree Number(s): D04.210.500.247.222.284; D04.210.500.247.808.197; D10.570.938.208
Unique ID: D002784
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002784
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; /‌blood: consider also HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA and specifics; cholesterol granuloma: index CHOLESTEROL and GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY
Scope Note: The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.
Entry Term(s): Epicholesterol
Registry Number: 97C5T2UQ7J
Related Numbers: 57-88-5
CAS Type 1 Name: Cholest-5-en-3-ol (3beta)-
NLM Classification #: QU 95
See Also: Embolism, Cholesterol; Hypercholesterolemia
Public MeSH Note: /blood was BLOOD CHOLESTEROL 1963-67
Online Note: use CHOLESTEROL to search BLOOD CHOLESTEROL 1966-67
History Note: /blood was BLOOD CHOLESTEROL 1963-67
Entry Combination: antagonists & inhibitors:Anticholesteremic Agents
Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/05/28

Entry Combination: antagonists & inhibitors:Anticholesteremic Agents
Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analogs & derivatives (AA)

analysis (AN)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

deficiency (DF)

economics (EC)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

physiology (PH)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

supply & distribution (SD)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

urine (UR)

Cholesterol MeSH Descriptor Data 2024