Fat and Fatty Acid Terminology, Methods of Analysis and Fat Digestion and Metabolism: A Background Review Paper
| Autor: | W. M. Nimal Ratnayake, Claudio Galli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Vitamin Lipoproteins Biological Availability Medicine (miscellaneous) Biology chemistry.chemical_compound Terminology as Topic Amphiphile Animals Humans Carotenoid chemistry.chemical_classification Wax Nutrition and Dietetics Fatty Acids Essential Fatty Acids Fatty acid Lipid metabolism Metabolism Lipid Metabolism Dietary Fats Lipids Sterol Biochemistry chemistry visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium Eicosanoids Digestion Female lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) Oils |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 55:8-43 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9697 0250-6807 |
| Popis: | Fats, oils or lipids consist of a large number of organic compounds including fatty acids, monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, triacylglycerols (TGs), phospholipids (PLs), eicosanoids, resolvins, docosanoids, sterols, sterol esters, carotenoids, vitamin A and E, fatty alcohols, hydrocarbons and wax esters. Classically, lipids were defined as substances that are soluble in organic solvents. This is a loose definition and could include a number of non-lipid organic compounds. A novel definition and comprehensive system of classification of lipids were proposed in 2005 [Fahy et al., 2005]. The novel definition is chemically based and defines lipids as small hydrophobic or amphipathic (or amphiphilic) molecules that may originate entirely or in part by condensations of thioesters and/or isoprene units. The proposed lipid classification system enables the cataloguing of lipids and their properties in a way that is compatible with other macromolecular data bases. Using this approach, lipids from biological tissues have been divided into 8 categories, as shown in table 1 . Each category contains distinct classes and subclasses of molecules [Fahy et al., 2005]. Published online: September 15, 2009 |
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