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The cyclisation rate of mucosal squalene and the conversion of squalene to cholesterol were also increased, indicating that cholesterol synthesis was activated before mevalonate, probably at the step of HMG-CoA reductase, and also after mevalonate and squalene. The steps from squalene to cholesterol were apparently not rate limiting because the mucosal concentrations and the percentage distribution of squalene and sterols were similar in the patients and in the controls. A positive correlation of the cholesterol synthesis with the number of crypt cells, suggests that the expanded crypt cell population contributed to the enhanced intestinal cholesterologenesis. Furthermore, the serum cholesterol level was negatively correlated with the 14C- and 3H-counts in the mucosal cholesterol and with the cyclisation rate of squalene probable signs of regulatory role of serum low density lipoprotein cholesterol in intestinal cholesterol synthesis. 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