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The Role of HDL in Cholesterol Eflux
The liver has a couple of receptors that can grab that HCl internalize it or dilipidated. When you take cholesterol out of the HDL, what does it become? A small, liency, wiency baby HCl again. And HCl's have a five to seven day half life. They fill up empty, fill up empty. But when an LDL accepts cholesterol from an HDL and brings it back to the liver, that's called indirect reverse cholesterol transport. So now if we want to seriously talk about reverse cholesterol transport, it's the sum of direct reverse cholesterol transport,. HDL mediated, LDL cholesterol transport indirect, and however much trans-intestinal cholesterol leaflux you have.