Lipid transport forward

Plate 17. Summary of major forward and reverse lipid transport pathways through the extracellular compartment that link the liver and intestine with peripheral tissues. FC, unesterified cholesterol. For other abbreviations see list of abbreviations. (See page 536 in this volume.)... 

Reverse lipid transport is the movement of lipids, mainly cholesterol and phospholipids, from peripheral tissues, through the extracellular compartment, to the liver for catabolism. Unlike the forward transport of lipids, that involves mainly TG packaged into lipoproteins inside hepatic and intestinal cells, the cholesterol and phospholipids contributing to reverse transport are assembled into lipoproteins extracellularly, as the result of events in the plasma. 

VLDL and LDL metabolism I forward cholesterol transport Lipids and iipid metaiwiism 87... 

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