Reverse cholesterol transport involves the liver and intestine through indirect and direct pathways.

“HDL it's cholesterol from wherever if things go right it could bring it back to either the liver or the small intestine or an adrenal gland or an ovary or at Estes so that's gonna be called direct because the HDL is doing it but we now also know that HDL can give its cholesterol to an LDL to a VLDL to a chylomicron to an IDL since most of them are LDLs it's giving most of it to an LDL and they can bring that cholesterol they're gonna be clear that the liver if you have the proper number of LDL receptors Hey so if an HDL give its cholesterol to an April B particle it brings it back to the liver that is called indirect”