Figure 10.

Effect of soybean germ phytosterols (SGP) on the incorporation of cholesterol into micelles. The three micellar solutions were prepared by adding cholesterol and soybean germ phytosterol into the basal micellar solution: LC, 0.25 mM cholesterol; HC, 0.5 mM cholesterol; LC + SGP, a binary mixture of 0.25 mM cholesterol and 0.25 mM soybean germ phytosterols (SGP). Data were expressed as mean ± SD, n = 6, with the amount of cholesterol in CH micelles being arbitrarily regarded as 100%. a,b,c = means with different superscript letters differ significantly at p < 0.05.