title: Fatty acid chain length combinations in ascitic fluid triglycerides containing lymphatic absorbed medium-chain fatty acids.
abstract: Information on the fatty acid chain length combinations in lymph triglycerides containing medium-chain fatty acids was obtained by combining the fatty acid composition and the carbon number composition of triglycerides from ascitic fluid of patients on medium-chain triglyceride-containing diets. In these triglycerides, the major part of the medium-chain fatty acids was present in combination with long-chain fatty acids. These results indicate that part of the lymphatic absorbed medium-chain fatty acids are absorbed as triglycerides which also contain long-chain fatty acids.
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000378:metabolism*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications; D008196:Lymph / Q000378:metabolism; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D014280:Triglycerides