NUTR 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Skeletal Muscle, Duodenum, Phospholipid

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Plants have plant sterols which are structurally very similar to cholesterol: can improve blood lipid profiles. Structure features a 4-ring core (stearoid nucleus), with one alcohol group. Sources of body cholesterol: diet (40% from animal sources, endogeounous (60% produced in liver) Main funcitons: components of membranes (increases fluidity, bile acids and salts (important for digestion and absorption of fats, steroid sex hormones, vitamin d. Fatty acids can be esterified (releases water) into a cholesterol ester: typically palmitate is esterified to cholesterol. Lingual lipase un mouth begins to break degrade tag to free fatty acids (ffa). Breaks off ffa, leaving us with a dag. Bile acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder acts as a detergent (emulsification) to help form mixed micelles are neutralize the acidity of the stomach contents. Also muscular contraction to break the non- polar lipids into micelles. Pancreatic lipase is released into the duodenum hydrolyz tag @ sn-1 and sn-

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