Overview: Hopes to develop apolipoproteins for diagnostic or, evenbetter, therapeuticpurposes are growing. Areas of use mayrange from arterial disease to AIDS, fertilization programs,neurological or inflammatory disorders, and the like.However, these young members of the large family ofcirculating proteins still deserve careful study, both interms of structural and functional properties and of theirpathological changes. In addition, related molecules, inparticular belonging to the family of enzymes, such aslipases and acyltransferases, offer exciting insight intothemechanisms of regulation of
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