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When diabetic rats ate a high-cholesterol diet and were given a drug called ezetimibe, their blood cholesterol dropped dramatically, and their liver made more of a key cholesterol-making enzyme—not by making more of its instructions, but by using the existing instructions more efficiently.
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The study gave diabetic rats a high-cholesterol diet and a drug called ezetimibe, which lowered their blood cholesterol and made their liver produce more of a key enzyme — but not by changing its genes, just by making more of the enzyme from existing instructions. This matches exactly what the claim says.
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