HHP 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Lipoprotein Lipase, Chylomicron, Blood Sugar

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Health and Human Physiology
• Course: HHP 3500
• Professor: Peterson Clayton

Document Summary

Macronutrients (carbs, fats, proteins) absorbed mostly by gi endothelial cells. Macronutrients used for energy or used to synthesize macromolecules to synthesize for later: events of each: Glucose/carb absorption: this is mostly starch with some monosaccharide, carbs can only be absorbed as monomers, so the starch is broken into glucose monomers, 1. Using it as energy: glucose pyruvate acetyl coa cac nadh etc atp, mostly skeletal muscle and nervous system using this glucose energy, 2. Using it as storage-glycogenesis: done by skeletal muscle and liver when energy is high, 3. This packaging of fats with proteins allows it to travel in blood because fat is not water soluble. The vldls transports them to adipocytes, and triglycerides are stored in these cells. To get them into adipote cells, they must first be broken into fatty acids by lipoprotein lipase, then that enters the cell, then reforms into triglycerides.