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Uptake of cholesterol into the blood by absorption from the small intestine. Any process by which nutrients are taken up from the contents of the intestine. The whole of the physical, chemical, and biochemical processes carried out by living organisms to break down ingested lipids into components that may be easily absorbed and directed into metabolism. The whole of the physical, chemical, and biochemical processes carried out by multicellular organisms to break down ingested nutrients into components that may be easily absorbed and directed into metabolism. The directed movement of sterols into, out of, within or between cells by means of some external agent such as a transporter or pore. Sterols are steroids with one or more hydroxyl groups and a hydrocarbon side-chain in the molecule. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of absorption of cholesterol into the blood, and the exclusion of other sterols from absorption. The directed movement of cholesterol, cholest-5-en-3-beta-ol, into, out of, within or between cells by means of some external agent such as a transporter or pore. A physical, chemical, or biochemical process carried out by living organisms to break down ingested nutrients into components that may be easily absorbed and directed into metabolism. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of uptake of cholesterol into the blood by absorption from the intestine. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of uptake of cholesterol into the blood by absorption from the intestine.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: intestinal cholesterol absorption
Acc: GO:0030299
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: Uptake of cholesterol into the blood by absorption from the small intestine.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 10 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 18 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0030299 - intestinal cholesterol absorption (interactive image map)
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