Fatty acids

Fatty acids
Main article: fatty acid
Chemically, fatty acids can be described as long chain monocarboxylic acids, and have a general structure of CH3(CH2)nCOOH.
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fatty acids. These bind members of the superfamily called peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs). They got their name from their initial discovery as the receptors for drugs that increase the number and size of peroxisomes in cells.
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fatty acids: long chains of carbon atoms with carboxyl groups at one end.
feeding pattern: the pattern in which animals obtain their nutrients.
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Fatty acids have a long hydrocarbon (carbon and hydrogen) chain with a carboxyl (acid) group. The chains usually contain 16 to 18 carbons.
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Fatty acids can be saturated (meaning they have as many hydrogens bonded to their carbons as possible) or unsaturated (with one or more double bonds connecting their carbons, hence fewer hydrogens).
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A form of fatty acids that our body derives from food that have anti-inflammatory properties due to their ability to convert into anti-inflammatory prostaglandins.
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desaturases Enzymes (dehydrogenases) that catalyze the introduction of double bonds into the hydrocarbon portion of fatty acids. desolvation In aqueous solution, the release of bound water surrounding a solute such as an enzyme.
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We have examined the effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) upon mitochondrial Ca2+ content and dehydrogenase activation in the rat heart.
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increased fatty acid synthesis - insulin forces fat cells to take in glucose which is converted to fatty acids; lack of insulin causes the reverse ...
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1995: Cardiac Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography with Iodine-123-Labeled Fatty Acids - Evaluation of Myocardial Viability with BMIPP by F.F. Knapp, Jr., P. Franken, and J. Kropp, J. of Nucl. Med. 36:1022.
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triglyceride - glycerol ester of fatty acids. The main constituent of fat droplets in animal
tissues (where fatty acids are saturated) and of vegetable oil (where fatty acids are mainly, unsaturated).
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A long carbon chain carboxylic acid. Fatty acids vary in length and in the number and location of double bonds; three fatty acids linked to a glycerol molecule form fat.
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lipid A fat, oil, or fatlike compound that usually has fatty acids in its molecular structure. An organic compound consisting mainly of carbon and hydrogen atoms linked by nonpolar covalent bonds.
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an organic compound that has a 3-carbon skeleton and that may unite with fatty acids to form a fat
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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fat (triacylglycerol)
A biological compound consisting of three fatty acids linked to one glycerol molecule.
Covered in Lab 6 Unicellular and Filamentous Organization
femur
The thigh bone of tetrapods.
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Autotrophs are able to build organic molecules from carbon dioxide. Heterotrophs, the "other feeders," obtain their carbon from organic compounds - amino acids, fatty acids, sugars, and so on - of autotrophs.
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