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Cholesterol biosynthetic pathway.The conversion of lanosterol to cholesterol proceeds through either Bloch pathway (red line) or Kandutsch-Russell pathway. Recently, modified Kandutsch-Russell pathway (blue line) has been proposed (29). See text for more details. The number of carbons in each sterol is presented on the left of the pathway.
