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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 136, 169-179, Copyright © 1990 by American Society for Investigative Pathology
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FF Chao, EJ Blanchette-Mackie, YJ Chen, BF Dickens, E Berlin, LM Amende, SI Skarlatos, W Gamble, JH Resau and WT Mergner
Section of Experimental Atherosclerosis, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
The authors' laboratory, using histochemical methods, previously identified two types of cholesterol-containing lipid particles in the extracellular spaces of human atherosclerotic lesions, one particle enriched in esterified cholesterol and the other particle enriched in unesterified cholesterol. The authors isolated and characterized these lipid particles. The esterified cholesterol-rich lipid particle was a small lipid droplet and differed from intracellular lipid droplets found in foam cells with respect to size and chemical composition. It had an esterified cholesterol core surrounded by a phospholipid- unesterified cholesterol monolayer. Some aqueous spaces were seen within the particle core. Unesterified cholesterol-rich lipid particles were multilamellated, solid structures and vesicles comprised of single or multiple lamellas. The esterified cholesterol-rich particle had a density less than 1.01 g/ml, whereas the unesterified cholesterol-rich particle had a density between 1.03 and 1.05 g/ml. Both particles were similar in size (90% of both particles ranged in size between 40 to 200 nm in diameter) and had an unesterified cholesterol-to-phospholipid molar ratio of 2.5:1. The predominant phospholipid in both particles was sphingomyelin. The fatty acyl compositions of cholesteryl ester and phospholipid also were similar in both particles. Palmitate, oleate, and linoleate were the major fatty acids in the cholesteryl ester fraction, whereas palmitate, stearate, oleate, and linoleate were predominant in the phospholipid fraction. The origins and the role of these two unusual lipid particles in vessel wall cholesterol metabolism remain to be determined.
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