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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2005 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: Lipids. 2005 May;40(5):495–500. doi: 10.1007/s11745-005-1409-x

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Highly schematic representations of the liquid-crystalline LDL core (cross-sectional views). &dcl001; Phospholipids; &dcl002; Cholesteryl esters; &dcl003; Apo B. Free cholesterol and triacylglycerols have been omitted from the drawings for clarity A: Generalized representation of earlier models (19–25). In these models, the LDL particle is spherical and the liquid-crystalline core is organized in concentric shells of cholesteryl esters. B: Generalized representation of new models (32,35,36), in which the liquid-crystalline core contains flat layers of cholesteryl esters.