Michael S. Brown

Nobel Lecture

A Receptor-Mediated Pathway for Cholesterol Homeostasis

Michael S. Brown held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1985, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Bengt Samuelsson of the Karolinska Institutet.

A Receptor-Mediated Pathway for Cholesterol Homeostasis

Michael S. Brown held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1985, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Bengt Samuelsson of the Karolinska Institutet.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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