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Cholesterol

"Cholesterol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cholesterol" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cholesterol" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 241 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2005 and 2008 and 2009 and 2013
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