isocholesterol

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Etymology

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From iso- +‎ cholesterol.

Noun

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isocholesterol (countable and uncountable, plural isocholesterols)

  1. An alcohol, C27H46O15, that is isomeric with cholesterol and found in combination with cholesterol in wool fat.
    • 1923, Druggists’ Circular, volume 67, page 8, column 3:
      A solution of cholesterol in arsenic trichloride is colored pink, the color rapidly changing to cherry-red, accoding to Kahlenberg (Journ. biol. Chem. through Rép. pharm. XXXV. 282), while isocholesterols produce a blue color, which gradually changes to purple, dark red and finally to green.
    • 1958, Physiological Reviews, volume 38, page 491:
      It is of interest that horse sebum contains squalene, whereas the seba of ruminants, including sheep, goat, llama and dromedary, contain isocholesterol.
    • 1965, The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, pages 10, 1957, and 1961:
      Guinea pig, mouse and rabbit. All these seba are similar in lacking squalene, isocholesterol and triglycerides, exhibiting low values for free fatty acids and containing lathosterol (Wheatley, 1953, 1956; Wheatley & James, 1957).