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The DNA samples from the following rat strains were used: Sprague Dawley (SD, Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA), Wistar (Sea: Wistar, Outbred, SPF, Seac Yoshitomi) and WKA (WKA/Sea, inbred, SPF, Seac Yoshitomi), WKY (WKY/NCrj, inbred, SPF, Charles River Japan, Kanagawa, Japan or Charles River, Wilmington, MA), SHR/Crl (Charles River, Wilmington, MA), SHRSP (SHRSP/Sea, inbred, SPF, Seac Yoshitomi, Fukuoka, Japan), GH and BN.
1; generous gift of Dr G Trinchieri, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA), anti-CD19 (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark), anti-CD45RO (UCHL1; Dako), and anti-CD45RA (2H4; gift of Dr C Morimoto, Boston, MA, USA) [ 17, 18].
The Gly583Cys mutation in Abcg5 is likely to have originated in the original outbred Wistar colony bred in Kyoto (from which WKY was subsequently derived), which has been widely employed as a normotensive control in experimental studies of hypertension.
However, a literature search revealed that a few strains of rats, studied primarily for investigation of hypertension and stroke, have been reported to be sitosterolemic as well [ 15 16 ] . We hypothesised that these rat strains may be mutated in either Abcg5 or Abcg8 . Tissue (and plasma) plant sterol levels in the Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rat, the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP) were significantly higher than in Wistar and WKA rats fed either a regular chow diet or diets that have higher plant sterols and these were correlated with increased death, or red cell hemolysis etc. [ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ] . Dietary sterol absorption rates were increased, with a decrease in sterol excretion [ 16 ] , characteristics similar to that observed in sitosterolemic patients.
A reliable antibody to sterolin-1 was available only and was used to probe liver microsomal lysates from Sprague Dawley, SHR and Wistar rats (Fig.
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