Additionally, probucol may inhibit cholesterol synthesis and delay cholesterol absorption.
However, it is known that cholesterol synthesis is necessary for normal neuron functioning.
The yeast contains several compounds collectively known as monacolins, which are known to inhibit cholesterol synthesis.
His most important work in the 1970s was on fungal extrolites and their influence on cholesterol synthesis.
He hypothesised that fungi used chemicals to ward off parasitic organisms by inhibiting cholesterol synthesis.
These may include binding to Insig (insulin-induced gene), which regulates cholesterol synthesis.
Proprotein convertases have medical significance, because they are involved in many important biological processes, such as cholesterol synthesis.
PCSK9 has medical significance because it acts in cholesterol synthesis.
The drug, lovastatin, blocks the activity of an enzyme involved in cholesterol synthesis.
The body also compensates for any absorption of additional cholesterol by reducing cholesterol synthesis.