Studies on cholesterol esterases of the small intestine and pancreas of rats

Abstract

The literature on cholesterol esterases (this term is used because, as demonstrated here, the hydrolysis and synthesis of cholesteryl esters are brought about by two separate enzymes) has been assembled by Korzenovsky, Diller, Marshall & Auda (1960). This literature reveals: (1) that the cholesterol esterases of the pancreas and small intestine of rats may be identical (Swell, Byron & Treadwell, 1950; Hemandez, Chaikoff & Kiyasu, 1955) or may not A Method of dispersion