Title : Hepatitis C virus may have an entero-hepatic cycle which could be blocked with ezetimibe.

Pub. Date : 2017 May

PMID : 28478831






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1 Just as this protein is key in the entero-hepatic cycle of cholesterol, we hypothesize that there is an entero-hepatic cycle of HCV that could be disrupted by blocking NPC1L1 with ezetimibe, an already approved and readily available safe drug. Cholesterol NPC1 like intracellular cholesterol transporter 1 Homo sapiens