Article: X-Ceptor Therapeutics Announces Link With Cholesterol-Lowering Agents And the Orphan Nuclear Receptor, FXR.

SAN DIEGO -- Scientists at X-Ceptor Therapeutics Inc., along with colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine & the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, have unlocked a secret to cholesterol-lowering through the study of a natural product that has been used in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine for over 2,500 years. The discovery will be published in the journal Science, as part of the Science Express web site ( http://www.scienceexpress.org/ ) on 2 May 2002.

The research team led by Dr. David D. Moore, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine and graduate student Nancy L. Urizar, have established a key link ...

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