“…The liver is important in the catabolism of LDL (Slater et al, 1980;Portman et al, 1979;Calvert et al, 1975;Pittman et al, 1979aPittman et al, ,b, 1980Attie et al, 1980), although the mechanisms by which LDL may interact with the liver are not entirely clear. The liver accumulates injected LDL (Slater et al, 1980;Sniderman et al, 1975;Portman et al, 1979;Calvert et al, 1975), and studies in rabbits (Slater et al, 1980) and estradiol-treated rats (Chao et al, 1979) suggest that approximately half the uptake of LDL is mediated by a mechanism similar to the LDL receptor. High-affinity uptake and degradation of LDL have been observed in suspended rat (Van Berkel et al, 1980;Ose et al, 1980a) and rabbit hepatocytes (Soltys & Portman, 1979).…”