The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) regulates acute steroidogenesis in the adrenal cortex and gonads by promoting the translocation of cholesterol to the mitochondrial inner membrane ...

In honor of September being National Cholesterol Education Month, Johns Hopkins is highlighting several resources available to university employees to prevent and control high cholesterol. The article ...

Professor Jing Xu and her students study extremely tiny motor proteins, but their work could make a huge contribution to the growing body of knowledge about Alzheimer’s and other diseases that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adolescents have lower cholesterol levels with more time spent performing light physical activity. Fat mass had ...

Managed care initiatives to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk have, to date, focused almost exclusively on statins, which are primarily low-density lipoprotein cholesterol-lowering agents and ...

Introduction Up to 30% of Achilles tendinopathy presents in non-active individuals [Rolf 1997] and an association between adiposity and tendinopathy has been highlighted [Gaida 2009a]. Inactivity and ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae-responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections-to obtain cholesterol ...