BACKGROUND Dietary intake of linolenic acid is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. However, it is unknown whether linolenic acid is associated with a lower risk of carotid atherosclerosis. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine the association between dietary linolenic acid and the presence of atherosclerotic plaques and the intima-media thickness of the carotid ...

By employing gas chromatography, thefatty acidcontents were determinedin the root, stem,and leaf of A. pseudalhagi.The compositionof fatty acids varied among organs A.pseudalhagi. The unsaturation percentages for each part 47.78%, 48.17%,and 44.12%, respectively. dominant acid in leavesand stems was palmitic acid. contentof these organsvaried from 19.25% to 19.69%. other major γ-linolenic acidi...

After 7 days of germination in the dark, the three sections of pea seedlings studied (cotyledons, stems, and young leaves) are rich in linoleic acid; after illumination of the seedlings a very significant increase in linolenic acid is observed in the young leaves section, whereas only small variations are noted in the fatty acid composition of the other sections. The increase in linolenic acid ...

The serum concentration of lipids and composition of fatty acids after overnight fasting were studied in 18 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated for 12 weeks with either 20 ml of evening primrose oil containing 9% of gamma-linolenic acid or olive oil. The serum concentrations of oleic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, and apolipoprotein B decreased and those of linoleic acid, gamma-linolenic a...

(PUFAs) differs greatly among the individual PUFAs: the efTect of v-linolenicucidismarkedlygreatetthanthatoftheparentmelecule,tinoleic aeid."]6) In addition, or-tinolenic, arachidonic, or eicosapentaenoic acids exert a much greater CHOL-lowering activity thufi the linoleic acid,i'g) However, since these efflects were examined independently, it is diMcult to cornpare the erncacy of these PUFAs d...

Azadirachta indica, is locally called as “Neem” belongs to the family Meliaceae. “Neem” is a medicinal herb traditionally used for the treatment of Diabetes, leprosy and Respiratory diseases. The present study was carried out to identify the phytocomponents present in the methanolic extract of the leaves of Azadirachta indica by GC-MS analysis. From the GC-MS results five compounds were identif...

cerevisiae Saccharomyces-Linolenic Acid in γ Heterologous Production of Dihomo

Brassica napus leaves developed at low temperature display rapid in situ desaturation of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) fatty acids leading to the production of hexadecatrienoic/linolenic acid. This was shown by radioactivity-tracer experiments to occur via a sequence of desaturations proceeding from the initially synthesized palmitic/oleic acid molecular species to palmitic/linoleic acid,...

Pure preparations of phosphatidylcholine were isolated from spinach leaf chloroplasts, spinach leaf microsomes, and cauliflower inflorescence. The isolated phosphatidylcholine was treated with snake venom phospholipase A, and the fatty acid distribution and composition of the fatty acid methyl esters prepared from the lysophosphatidylcholine and the freed fatty acid were determined by gas-liqui...