Table 1.

HDL endocytosis in tissue culture.

Cell line	Tissue	Species	Ref.	Remark
HepG2	Liver	Human	[44,45,71,119,120]
HepG2	Liver	Human	[49,50]	Polarized HepG2 cells
HUH-7	Liver	Human	⁎
Primary hepatocytes	Liver	Mouse	[28]	Polarized murine hepatocytes
Primary hepatocytes	Liver	Mouse	[55,77]
Hepa1-6	Liver	Mouse	⁎
Non-parenchymal liver cells	Liver	Mouse	[79]
FU5AH	Liver	Rat	[10]
Aortic smooth muscle cells	Endothelium	Rat	[6]	1st report of HDL retro-endocytosis
Aortic endothelial cells	Endothelium	Rat	[121]
Aortic endothelial cells	Endothelium	Bovine	[93,94]
HUVEC	Endothelium	Human	⁎
HCAEC	Endothelium	Human	⁎
EPCs	Endothelium	Human	⁎	Endothelial progenitor cells
Peritoneal macrophages	Macrophage	Mouse	[8]
Monocyte-derived macrophages	Macrophage	Human	[9]
THP-1 monocyte/macrophage	Macrophage	Human	[29]
Madin–Darby cells	Kidney	Canine	[28]	Polarized epithelial cells
HEK293	Kidney	Human	⁎
Y1BS1	Adrenals	Human	[29]
Caco-2	Intestine	Human	[46]
3T3-L1 adipocytes	Adipocytes	Human	⁎
Trophoblasts	Placenta	Human	[60]
BeWO	Placenta	Human	[61]
Prim. capillary endothelial cells	Brain	Porcine	[122]	In-vitro model for blood–brain-barrier
CHO	Ovaries	Hamster	[29,52,53,56]
CHO7	Ovaries	Hamster	[61]	Degrade HDL efficiently
COS-7	Fibroblast	Monkey	[48]

^⁎Röhrl, Fruhwürth, Srisen, Winter, Neumüller and Stangl, unpublished data.