“…Prominent among these appears to be their participation in reverse cholesterol transport (Fielding & Fielding, 1982;Glomset, 1968). Additionally, they are also implicated in a number of other processes such as blood coagulation (Bareowcliffe et al, 1982;Carson, 1981), inhibition of viral infection (Kane etal., 1979;Levy et al, 1982), inhibition of infection by protozoal parasites (Ormerod & Venkatesan, 1982), delivery of cholesterol to steroidogenic cells (Chen etal., 1980;McNamara et al, 1981;Ohashi et al, 1981), degradation of bacterial endotoxins (Ulevitch et al, 1981), inhibition of LDL oxidation (Klimov, 1987;Kunitake et al, 1992;Ohta et al, 1989;Parthasarathy et al, 1990), and perhaps stimulation of vascular endothelium (Tauber et al, 1981).…”