lipoprotein
lipoprotein
Definition
lipo·pro·tein (-prō′tēn′, -prō′tē in)
noun
any of a group of proteins combined with a lipid, found as in blood plasma or egg yolk
lipoprotein
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- call: Cholesterol travels through the blood in minute packages mixed with large molecules called lipoproteins.
- reduce: Statins remain the drugs of first choice for reducing low-density lipoproteins ( LDL ).
- increase: They also have moderate effects on increasing high-density lipoprotein ( HDL ) concentration and reducing serum triglycerides.
- raise: It has a potent effect in lowering LDL and it also appears to raise high-density lipoproteins ( HDL ).
- oxidize: Passwater: Let's discuss oxidized lipoproteins in detail later.
- make: The team showed that this changes the bacterium's ability to cause disease, making lipoproteins a possible route for creating a vaccine.
Adjective modifier
- low: Similar trends were seen with respect to low density lipoprotein.
- high: There was no change in levels of high density lipoprotein ( HDL ), the ' good ' cholesterol.
Modifies a noun
- lipase: One caveat, tho, is that lipoprotein lipase and HDL production are probably subject to genetic control.
- cholesterol: There were no changes in total or lipoprotein cholesterol in either group.
- metabolism: The Golden Syrian hamster has been shown to be one of the best small animal species for the study of lipoprotein metabolism.
- receptor: Transcripts of the other lipoprotein receptors were widely, but variably, distributed across the different cell types.
- concentration: At one year low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations had fallen substantially in both groups.
- profile: Royal jelly, a possible agent to reduce the nicotine-induced atherogenic lipoprotein profile.
Noun used with modifier
- low-density: Effect of plant stanol tablets on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering in patients on statin drugs.
- high-density: HDL, or high-density lipoprotein, is the good cholesterol.
- High-density: High-density lipoprotein ( HDL - the " good " cholesterol ), however, is like an empty taxi.
- density: Similar trends were seen with respect to low density lipoprotein.
- serum: Effects of different forms of dietary hydrogenated fats on serum lipoprotein cholesterol levels.
- plasma: Plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol: association with measurements of body mass: the Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study.
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