Since cholesterol is essential for all animal life, each cell is capable of synthesizing it by way of a complex 37-step process, beginning with the mevalonate pathway and ending with a 19-step conversion of lanosterol to cholesterol.
Como o colesterol é moi importante para os animais, practicamente todas as células o sintetizan mediante un complexo proceso que comeza coa vía do mevalonato e acaba cunha conversión en 19 pasos do lanosterol en colesterol.