期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1973
卷号：70
期号：8
页码：2313-2316
DOI：10.1073/pnas.70.8.2313
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Cholesterol has a maximum solubility in aqueous solutions of 1.8 {micro}g/ml or 4.7 {micro}M. It undergoes a thermodynamically reversible self-association with a critical micelle concentration of 25 to 40 nM at 25{degrees}. The cholesterol micelle is heterogeneous in size, probably rodlike in shape, and stabilized by an unusually high interaction energy between the aggregated monomers.
