Polystyrene microplastics decrease accumulation of essential fatty acids in common freshwater algae

Consequences of Essential Fatty Acids

Essential fatty acids (EFA) are nutrients that form an amazingly large array of bioactive mediators that act on a large family of selective receptors. Nearly every cell and tissue in the human body expresses at least one of these receptors, allowing EFA-based signaling to influence nearly every aspect of human physiology. In this way, the health consequences of specific gene-environment interac...

Metabolism of Essential Fatty Acids

The fat deficiency disease in the rat (I), dog (2), and chick (3) is characterized in part by sharply increased concentrations of one or more trienoic acids in the tissues, as indicated by alkali isomerization analyses. Indeed, the increase in conjugatable triene in the mitochondrial fatty acids may be the first noticeable symptom of the onset of fat deficiency (4). The major triene component o...

Essential fatty acids and inflammation.

Essential fatty acids extracted from Portulaca oleracea L. leaves

Background & Aim: Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.), belongs to the Portulacaceace family, grows in many parts of Iran. Results of previous studies were indicated purslane is a rich source of essential fatty acids of omega-3 and omega-6.  Portulaca oleracea is a widespread weed, being the eighth common plants of the world. The Aim of current study was to compare the essential f...

Essential Fatty Acids in Maternal Diets

Low birth weight: Low birth weight is multifactorial in its causation. Short maternal stature, maternal anaemia, low energy intake and low weight gain in pregnancy, infections and smoking have all been identified as possible factors. The gestational age of liveborn infants in poor Indian communities appears to be significantly shorter than that reported for the developed countries. As an exampl...