In a study of human milk collected for banking, heating at 62.5 degrees C for 30 min, and freezing and thawing resulted in hydrolysis of triglycerides. Freezing and thawing caused disruption of fat globules and a greater hydrolysis of triglycerides than did the heating process. There was a decrease in the percentage of the poly-unsaturated fatty acids linoleic acid (C18:2) and linolenic acid (C...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: LCPUFAs: Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids; ω6: Omega-6 Family; GLA: γ-Linolenic Acid; AA: Arachidonic Acid; ω3: Omega-3 Family; EPA: Eicosapentaenoic Acid; DHA: Docosahexaenoic Acid; AL: Linoleic Acid; AAL: Alpha-Linolenic Acids; vitamin A: Beta-Carotene; vitamin K: Phylloquinone; vitamin E: Alpha-Tocopherol; B1: Thiamine; B2: R...

We studied the effects of five high-fat semi-purified diets varying at a 4% (w/w) level in either stearic, oleic, linoleic, alpha-linolenic, or gamma-linolenic acid on body fat and energy metabolism in BALB/c mice. A diet containing caprylic, capric, lauric, and myristic acid was used as a reference diet and a diet with 4% conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was used as a positive control as it is k...

The present work was undertaken to study the effect of anti-insulinic and glycogenolytic factors on the oxidative desaturation of fatty acids. The effects of glucagon and dibutyryl cyclic AMP on the desaturation of linoleic acid to gamma-linolenic acid, alpha-linolenic acid to octadeca-6,9,12,15-tetraenoic acid, stearic acid to oleic acid, and eicosa-8,11,14-trienoic acid to eicosa-5,8,11,14-te...

The importance of the plyunsaturated fatty acid in milk in the growth of nurslings needs no further mention. According to Bosworth et al.(1), arachidonic but no linoleic and linolenic acids are present in the polyunsaturated fatty acid of milk-fat. However, Hilditch et al.(2) reported that milk-fat contains linoleic acid at a level of 5%. Riemenschneider et al.(3) reported that the arachidonic ...

The consumption of dietary fats have been long associated to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, asthma, and cardiovascular disease; although some controversy still exists in the role of dietary fats in human health, certain fats have demonstrated their positive effect in the modulation of abnormal fatty acid and eicosanoid metabolism, both of them associated to chron...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: LCPUFAs: Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids; ω6: Omega-6 Family; GLA: γ-Linolenic Acid; AA: Arachidonic Acid; ω3: Omega-3 Family; EPA: Eicosapentaenoic Acid; DHA: Docosahexaenoic Acid; AL: Linoleic Acid; AAL: Alpha-Linolenic Acids; vitamin A: Beta-Carotene; vitamin K: Phylloquinone; vitamin E: Alpha-Tocopherol; B1: Thiamine; B2: R...

The relationships between n-3 and n-6 fatty acids in subcutaneous fat, BMI and overweight status were investigated in eighty-eight children from Crete and Cyprus. Overweight status, BMI and serum lipid levels were similar in children at both locations, but Cretan children had higher levels of total MUFA than Cypriot children (62.2 (sd 2.8) v. 52.2 (sd 2.8) % area, respectively, P<0.001) and con...

This study investigated the effects of a diet deficient in alpha-linolenic acid followed or not by supplementation with phospholipids rich in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on behavior and phospholipid fatty acid composition in selected brain regions. Three weeks before mating, two groups of mice were fed a semisynthetic diet containing both linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid or a diet d...

Sesamin is known as a specific inhibitor of delta 5-desaturation, the conversion from dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (20:3(n=6)) to arachidonic acid (20:4(n-6)). In the previous paper, we reported that sesamin inhibited delta 5-desaturation of n-6 fatty acids in rat hepatocytes but not that of n-3 fatty acids, from 20:4(n-3) to 20:5(n-3). Then, we studied the effects of sesamin on delta 5-desatura...