[Inhibition of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), a plasma protein that normally transfers cholesterol from the protective high-density lipoprotein (HDL) fraction to the atherogenic low-density lipoprotein (LDL) fraction, results in an increase in the concentration of HDL cholesterol and a decrease in the concentration of LDL cholesterol and has been shown in rabbits to inhibit the development of atherosclerosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE