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. 2020 Nov 30;115(6):73. doi: 10.1007/s00395-020-00829-5

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Lipid profile comparison across species. In contrast to human, most species carry cholesterol mainly in HDL particles. In mice and rats, LDL cholesterol is lower than HDL cholesterol. Rats have a strong overlap between both LDL and HDL particles. Pigs have a lipoprotein profile comparable to human characterized by high LDL cholesterol

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