Good? Bad? (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Good? Bad?

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HDL, or 'good' cholesterol, can remove cholesterol from arteries and shuttle it to the liver where it is eliminated, but this process can be disrupted in certain circumstances (such as deficiency of SCARB1).

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The lab of Daniel Rader, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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