I1T HAS BEEN suggested that polyunsaturated fatty acids control, by some mechanism, the levels of blood cholesterol and other blood lipids.1 S Sinclair suggested4 that dietary deficiency of essential fatty acids is responsible for human atherosclerosis. He proposed t-hat the mechanism of atherogenesis involves a replacement of the polyunsaturated fatty acids in serum cholesterol esters by satur...

I1T HAS BEEN suggested that polyunsaturated fatty acids control, by some mechanism, the levels of blood cholesterol and other blood lipids.1 S Sinclair suggested4 that dietary deficiency of essential fatty acids is responsible for human atherosclerosis. He proposed t-hat the mechanism of atherogenesis involves a replacement of the polyunsaturated fatty acids in serum cholesterol esters by satur...

Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of lipophilic phenolic antioxidants was carried out with a concentrate of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), recovered from oil extracted from salmon ( Salmon salar ) byproduct. Vanillyl alcohol and rutin were selected for the esterification reaction, and obtained esters yields were 60 and 30%, respectively. The antioxidant activities of the esters were compared...

Omega-3 fatty acids have a long history of use as dietary supplements and more recently for therapeutic applications as prescription pharmaceuticals. Achieving a high concentration is critical for developing convenient, practical therapeutic formulations. The objective of the study was to explore the uptake and effects of different concentrations of omega-3 acid ethyl esters. Three different om...

BACKGROUND Lipophilic estradiol derivatives carried by lipoprotein particles in blood may mediate antioxidant or endocrine effects. We developed a new quantitative method to determine the concentration of circulating lipophilic estradiol fatty acid esters in human early- and late-pregnancy serum and in ovarian follicular fluid. METHODS After extraction from serum or follicular fluid, estradio...

The AlkBGTL proteins coded on the alk operon from Pseudomonas putida GPo1 can selectively ω-oxidize ethyl esters of C6 to C10 fatty acids in whole-cell conversions with Escherichia coli. The major product in these conversions is the ω-alcohol. However, AlkB also has the capacity to overoxidize the substrate to the ω-aldehyde and ω-acid. In this study, we show that alcohol dehydrogenase AlkJ and...

Procedures for preparing 4,4-dimethyloxazoline (DMOX) and pyrrolidine derivatives from fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) were modified to provide milder simpler conditions the derivatization reactions widely used in mass spectrometric analysis of acids. DMOX obtained overnight at room temperature presence sodium borohydride. The proposed method, involving a low-temperature condensation-cyclizati...

The sluggish respiratory response to chondria of alloxan diabetic rats and ADP in liver mitohibernating ground squirrels was overcome by addition of uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation, suggesting that poor penetration of ADP prevented maximum oxygen consumption. The in uivo depression of adenine nucleotide translocation through the inner mitochondrial membrane was confirmed directly by mea...

High-purity oleate esters can decrease the melting points and improve the oxidative stability of lubricants. High-oleic soybean oil (HOSO) was esterified to butyl or isopropyl esters. Fractional distillation and low-temperature crystallization were applied to improve the purity of oleate of HOSO esters. Although the purity of butyl esters of HOSO attained 91.8% by fractional distillation, the r...

Treatment with alkali is one of several methods for removing fatty acids from bacterial endotoxins and, in the process, detoxifying the material. Saponification of fatty acid esters is the major detectable chemical change produced by alkali; however, kinetic studies of mild alkaline hydrolysis of endotoxin failed to correlate rates of detoxification with rates of loss of ketodeoxyoctonates, hep...