Baboon fatty acid

Carton, G. A., Scaife, J. R., and Smith, A. (1975). Effect of vitamin Bu status on the occurrence of branched-chaln and odd-numbered fatty acids in the Ever lipids of the baboon. Eipids 10,855-857. 

It has been known for several years through in vivo tracer studies that human term and preterm infants are capable of synthesizing C20 and C22 LCP from the Cjg precursors (Carnielli et al., 1996 Salem et al., 1996 Sauerwald et al., 1997). These and more recent studies suggest that this capability is highly variable from individual to individual (Uauy et al., 2000). However, all studies to date have sampled blood compartments, and estimates of relative conversion based on such measurements are tenuous at best. We recently reported the bioequivalence of dietary LN A and DHA as precursors for primate neonate brain DHA accretion based on direct measurements of brain DHA accretion (Su et al., 1999a). Neonate baboons were fed a commercial infant formula with 18% of total fatty acids by weight as LA and 1.8% as LNA, which gives an LA/LNA ratio of 10 for 6 wk. Doses of LNA or DHA were administered orally at 4 wk and animals were sacrificed at 6 wk. 

Su H-M, Corso TN, Nathanielsz PW, Brenna JT, n-3 Fatty acid accretion after a 13C-18 3n-3 dose to fetal baboons. Thud Congress of the International Society for the Study of 1 atty Acids and Lipids, Lyon, 1998. 

Average Fatty Acids of Baboon Serum Lipids... 

Smith, A., Calder, A.G., Morrison, E.R. and Garton, G.A. (1979), Identification of branched chain fatty acids in baboon liver lipids. Biomed. Mass Spectrom., 6,345. 

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