Cholesteryl behenate is a cholesterol ester. It has been used as an internal standard for the quantification of cholesterol esters in human meibum samples.
Microcrystalline white solid
Cholesteryl behenate is a standard in electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.
ChEBI: A cholesterol ester obtained by the formal condensation of cholesterol with behenic acid.
Human Endogenous Metabolite
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10.1167/iovs.12-10317
