HeLa cells are highly susceptible to sequestration of cholesterol by MβCD.

<p>(A) Contents of cellular cholesterol were determined as described in “<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0026018#s4" target="_blank">Materials and methods</a>”. Gray bar indicates CHO cells, and shade bar indicates HeLa cells. *, <i>P</i><0.05. **, <i>P</i><0.01. #, <i>P</i><0.01. (B) Percentage of cellular cholesterol was determined as described in “<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0026018#s4" target="_blank">Materials and methods</a>”. Gray bar indicate CHO cells, and shade bar indicate HeLa cells. *, <i>P</i><0.01. #, <i>P</i><0.05.