This invention relates to steroid derivatives, pharmaceutical formulations containing those compounds alone or together with other cholesterol control agents, and methods of their use for upregulating LDL receptor gene expression, lowering serum LDL cholesterol and/or inhibiting atherosclerosis. Said steroid derivatives have the formula :
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a New Series of Sterols as Potential Hypocholesterolemic Agents
作者:Ho-Shen Lin、Ashraff A. Rampersaud、Robert A. Archer、Joseph M. Pawlak、Lisa S. Beavers、Robert J. Schmidt、Raymond F. Kauffman、William R. Bensch、Thomas F. Bumol
DOI:10.1021/jm00002a010
日期:1995.1
A new series of sterols was synthesized and tested in a CHO cell-based LDL receptor/luciferase (LDLR/Luc) assay to investigate the capability of derepressing the transcription of LDL receptor promoter in the presence of 25-hydroxycholesterol. The effect of various substitutions on antagonizing the repressing effect mediated by 25-hydroxycholesterol was also studied in terms of regio- and stereochemistry