Biological Activity of Phytosterols and Their Derivatives

摘要

This review is devoted to contemporary status of investigation of C-29 and C-28 plant sterols (phy-tosterols) in relation to their biological activity in mammals and mammalian cells. On the basis of experimentalstudies published during the last decade the following questions are discussed: phytosterols and nutrition; phy-tosterols and body cholesterol level; phytosterols and intestinal absorption of lipids, the role of phytosterols inlipid metabolism regulation; phytosterols and cultured mammalian cells; products of phytosterols oxidation;phytoecdysteroids and induced gene expression