Twenty six preterm infants were studied at the age of 2, 7, and 26 days. The activities of lipoprotein and hepatic lipase in plasma taken 15 minutes after a heparin bolus of 100 IU/kg had been given and the concentrations of carnitine in serum and urine were measured. The mean gestational age was 31 weeks (range 26-35 weeks) and birth weight 1580 g (range 840-2280 g). Thirteen infants weighed u...

Heparin-released triglyceride lipase from three sources, adipose tissue, liver, and postheparin plasma, was compared. Heparin-released triglyceride lipase from liver differed in several major respects from that in adipose tissue. These differences included response to inhibitors and to high density lipoprotein in the incubation media. Heparin-released triglyceride lipase from liver, when compar...

Lipoprotein lipase, or lipemia clearing factor lipase (which is more accurate terminology [l]) , is a heparin-activated enzyme which has been found in rat, beef, and pig heart (2). The adipose tissues of rats, rabbits, and especially chickens contain greater quantities of the enzyme (3). This latter observation led to the suggestion that the major site of lipoprotein lipase activity was in the ...

TRIGLYCERIDE, phospholipid, and cholesterol absorbed from the intestines are transported in the blood stream in the form of chylomicrons and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL)." There is considerable evidence that triglyceride of chylomicrons and VLDL is hydrolyzed during uptake from blood and that this process is catalyzed by lipoprotein l ipase. * Lipoprotein lipase activity is found in tis...