THE ADRENALS AND FAT ABSORPTION

The Adrenals

The adrenals, although discovered as early as 1564, were not known to have any function until the classical work of Addison in 1855. Since then, however, these glands have been the object of intensive research and the mass of literature collected up to date is simply overwhelming. In the present volume, the author has made a successful attempt to analyse the great accumulation of literature, to...

Bile salts and fat absorption.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in bile salt metabolism. Normally the body contains about 3 g. of bile salts. These comprise conjugates of cholic acid and chenodesoxycholic acid. The free acids are derived from the oxidation of cholesterol in the liver and once formed are conjugated with either taurine or glycine, after which they are secreted into the bile and so enter the small...

Fat Absorption and the Afferent Loop.

Disorders of Fat Absorption

I have often been asked how I can keep to so narrow a field as steatorrhoea over a period of years, and my answer has always been that there are so many inviting problems in this field; my main difficulty is really one of confining my energies to a few of them. For instance, there is a wide variety of clinical conditions in which steatorrhoea is seen, often present only as part of a syndrome of...

Radioactive Fat Absorption Patterns

ATHEROSCLEROSIS and its accompany18x ing vascular lipoidosis has been linked to an inborn error in fat metabolism. The observations that atheroselerosis and hypercholesterolemia frequently coexist,l 2 that both can be produced in animals following cholesterol feedings,3 and that atherosclerosis is unusual when people eat little animal fat, favor this concept.4-5 The unusual physical state and t...