Title : Regional differences in lipid composition and incorporation of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids into microsomal membranes of rat small intestine.

Pub. Date : 1988 Jun

PMID : 3167694






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1 These data suggest that (1) jejunal and ileal microsomal membranes differ from each other in terms of lipid composition and lipid synthesis, (2) site variations in the specificity of acyltransferases for different fatty acids exist, and (3) higher delta 9-, delta 6-, delta 5-, and delta 4-desaturase activities exist in ileal compared with jejunal enterocytes. Fatty Acids fatty acid desaturase 2 Rattus norvegicus