Epidemiological studies have provided controversial evidence of the association between dietary fatty acids intake and endometrial cancer risk. The continuous update project of World Cancer Research Fund failed to focus on this issue. To address this inconsistency, we conducted this dose-response meta-analysis based on epidemiological studies published up to the end of June 2015 identified from...

Due to its abundance in various areas along the Mandapam coast (latitude 9° 17”N; longitude 79° 11”E), Southeast coast of India, the commonly occurring intertidal bivalve Gafrarium tumidum was selected for this study to investigate its nutritive value. Tissues of different body parts such as mantle, viscera and foot were analyzed. Biochemical constituents like protein, carbohydrate and fat were...

We report here that monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) provoke the accumulation of neutral lipids and apoptosis in retinoic acid-treated HL-60 cells in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. The PUFAs (arachidonic acid, docosahexanoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid) provoked higher levels of HL-60 apoptosis compared with the monounsaturated oleic acid or th...

Thirty-six castrated male growing pigs were used to study the effect of dietary beef tallow (BT) versus sunflower oil (SO) on meat quality and fatty acid composition of various tissues. The diets used contained either 5% (w/w) of the variable fat source. The fat type had no significant effect on carcass traits (carcass weight, back-fat thickness, fat-lean ratio) and meat quality (colour, pH(1),...

The acyl pattern of adipose tissue triglycerides and of plasma free fatty acids were determined after 7 yr of diet intervention on elevated plasma cholesterol in 42 men taking part in the smoking-lipid trial of the Oslo Study. Twenty-two of the men were advised to change dietary habits (mainly reduce saturated fat) whereas the remaining 20 were controls. The adipose tissue from men in the inter...

We performed a meta-analysis on data extracted from 97 reports of experiments, involving a total of 12,803 mice or rats, studying the effect on mammary tumor incidence of different types of dietary fatty acids. Fatty acids were categorized into saturated, monounsaturated, n-6 polyunsaturated, and n-3 polyunsaturated. We modeled the relation between tumor incidence and percentage of total calori...

Crifhidia fasciculata, Crifhidia oncopelti, Crifhidia luciliae, Crithidia sp. from Arilus crisfafus, Crifhidia acanthocephali, Blastocrifhidia culicis, Leishmania tarenfolae, and Lepfomonas Zepfoglossi were grown under axenic conditions in chemically defined media, and their fatty acids were determined. Palmitic, stearic, and a Cl9 cyclopropane acid were the major saturated fatty acids. Oleic, ...

A defining trait among many cultured piezophilic and/or psychrophilic marine Gammaproteobacteria is the incorporation of both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids into membrane phospholipids. The biosynthesis these different classes acid molecules linked to two genetically distinct co-occurring pathways that utilize same pool intracellular precursors.

As for saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, the omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are chemically linked to fat structures known as triglycerides in the various foods and oils that are consumed. The natural triglyceride or fat structure consists of a 3-carbon glycerol backbone onto which 3 long-chain fatty acids of varying types and structures are linked or 'esterified...