The chromatographic behavior of some minor components of natural lipids was studied using layers of magnesium oxide and of commercial adsorbents containing magnesium oxide. The lipids investigated included wax esters, cholesteryl esters, diester waxes, and esters, ethers and ether-esters of ethanediol and glycerol. Pronounced differences were found in the patterns of separation of certain lipid...

drug administration. However, the barrier properties of the outermost layer, the stratum corneum, have limited the number of successful transdermal dosage forms developed thus far. One of the strategies for overcoming this problem is temporary local reduction of the barrier function of the stratum corneum with the aid of a percutaneous absorption enhancer. Sucrose fatty acid esters (sugar ester...

Mechanisms of decreased cholesterol absorption mediated by phytosterols in the intestinal lumen" (2011). Phytosterols and their fatty acyl esters have been known for decades to lower LDL cholesterol, making them powerful nutraceuticals in lowering cardiovascular disease risk. The mechanisms by which phytosterols lower cholesterol, though, have been incompletely characterized. Three studies were...

A continuous process for the transesterification of triglycerides to methyl esters was investigated in a pilot plant. The process was equipped with a motionlerr and a high-shear mixer. The experimental studies explored variations in the mixing intensity, stcichionetry, and catalyst concentration on the overall conversion. The combined as well as individual effect of mixers was examined. The dev...

Previous studies had shown radioiodinated esters of cholesterol and pregnenolone to accumulate in steroid-secreting tissues of the rat. This was particularly true for radioiodinated iopanoate esters. The present study was undertaken to examine the effect of the iopanoyl amino group on the tissue distribution of these esters. While the tissue distribution profiles for cholesteryl iopanoate and t...

A novel method is presented for transesterification of fatty acid esters in phospholipids and triglycerides to benzyl esters while simultaneously recovering free fatty acids as methyl esters. Transesterification is catalyzed by 0.2 M (m-trifluoromethyl phenyl)trimethyl ammonium hydroxide in methylene chloride, 10% (v/v) benzyl alcohol, and 1% (w/v) potassium tert-butoxide, and is complete in 30...

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...

Sweet aspartyl di- and tripeptide esters were extended toward the N-terminus in relation to the structural features of sweet peptides. The sweet peptides were designed on the basis of the receptor site model. It was found that an extension of the sweet aspartyl dipeptide esters by adding a small D-amino acid residue mostly gave sweet compounds (e.g., D-Ala-L-Asp-D-Ala-OMe), although this signif...

Fatty acid ethyl esters are a family of neutral lipids that are the products of esterification of fatty acids with ethanol. Unlike other pathways of ethanol metabolism, ethyl esters are present in numerous human organs which are the targets of ethanol-induced damage. In the present study, we have shown that fatty acid ethyl esters are synthesized by a hepatoma cell line in tissue culture when e...

Previous studies have indicated the presence of both neutral and acid, bile salt-independent retinyl ester hydrolases associated with plasma membrane and endosome fractions of rat liver homogenates. In the present studies, chylomicrons containing tritium-labeled retinyl esters were injected intravenously into rats in order to study the initial metabolism of retinyl esters during and after uptak...