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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 cholesterol2–4. We therefore examined the apparent absorption in humans of β-sitosterol, mixed soya sterols, stigmasterol acetate, sitosterol stearate, and cholesterol.
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SCHÖN, H. Sterol-Balance Experiments in Humans. Nature 184, 1872–1873 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841872a0
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