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Consumption of fats containing n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids lowers plasma LDLs, but HDLs, which protect against coronary heart disease, are also lowered. Dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fats have little effect on plasma HDL or LDL levels, but they suppress cardiac arrhythmias and reduce serum triacylglycerols, decrease the tendency to thrombosis, and substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality. 

Horrobin, D.F. and Manku, M.S. 1983. How do polyunsaturated fatty acids lower plasma cholesterol levels. Lipids 18, 558—562. 

Answer The temperature of body tissues at the extremities, such as near the hooves, is generally lower than that of tissues closer to the center of the body. To maintain fluidity, as required by the fluid-mosaic model, membranes at lower temperatures must contain a higher percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids a higher content of unsaturated fatty acids lowers the melting point of lipid mixtures. 

Epidemiological studies provide little, if any, evidence to support the hypothesis that saturated fatty acids, even those of chain length Ci2 o - Ci6 o that can elevate serum cholesterol concentration, are associated with the risk of CHD. This may result from the increased plasma HDL-cholesterol concentration produced by saturated fatty acids largely compensating for the adverse effects of these fatty acids on LDL-cholesterol concentration (Hu and Willett, 2000). In addition, saturated fatty acids lower the level of plasma Lp[a], which is considered a significant risk factor for CHD (Mensink et al., 1992). 

Ruminant milk fats are characterized by a much greater variety of component fatty acids. Lower saturated acids with 4 to 10 carbon atoms are present in relatively large amounts. The major fatty acids are palmitic, oleic, and stearic. 

Appreciable research on the effect of canola oil on plasma cholesterol and lipoproteins has been reported. The primary impetus for this research was the finding that dietary monounsaturated fatty acids were as effective as polyunsaturated fatty acids in lowering plasma total and LDL cholesterol (100, 109). These findings also provided a possible explanation for the observation that canola oil was as effective as soybean oil in lowering plasma cholesterol in normolipidemic men (110). Prevailing theory had held that saturated fatty acids raised plasma cholesterol, polyunsaturated fatty acids lowered plasma cholesterol, and monounsaturated fatty acids were neutral, they neither raised nor lowered plasma cholesterol (111, 112). 

Kaminski WE, Jendraschak E, Kiefl R, and von Schadcy C. (1993). Dietary omega-3 fatty acids lower levels of platelet-derived growth factor mRNA in human mononuclear cells. Blood. 81,1871-1879. 

If sodium propionate is ingested or applied topically in an acid media, it becomes propionic acid. It oxidizes fatty acids, lowers pH values, and facilitates the citric acid cycle through interaction with coenzyme A. There has been evidence of heightened production of insulin in cows and sheep the insulin later settles to an overall lower level. 

Oil is usually obtained from dry milled corn germ by full press (via an expeller). List and co-workers (1984) compared some of the chemical components in com oil from wet milled germ versus dry milled germ and reported lower levels of free fatty acids, lower levels of phosphorus, and higher levels of tocopherols in the latter. 

Q-3 fatty acids lower blood pressure, improve lipids and reduce other cardiovascular disease risk factors [83]. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of the co-3 or eo-6 series have the potential to regulate serum triglycerides and cholesterol levels that are considered important risk factors in cardiovascular pathologies. 

The principal nutritional focus in atherosclerosis has been dietary fat and cholesterol. It was concluded that (1) saturated fatty acids increase serum cholesterol and are its primary determinants (2) polyunsaturated fatty acids lower serum cholesterol and (3) monounsaturated fatty acids have no independent effect. Concerning cholesterol, it has been recommended to reduce dietary cholesterol intake to less that 300 mg/day. 

Harris, W.S. and Bulchandani, D., Why do omega-3 fatty acids lower serum triglycerides Curr. Opin. LipidoL, 17, 387-393, 2006. 

The nutritional value of nut and seed products is closely associated with the fatty acid content of the oil. High Unoleic acid content decreases shelf-life. Increasing the oleic/linoleic acid ratio produces a more stable oil with a longer shelf-life. Nutritionally, a high linoleic acid content is desirable, because this acid is an essential fatty acid and produces a hypocholenic effect. Of more than 100 fatty acids, three are essential, linoleic, linolenic and arachidonic. The consensus is that polyunsaturated fat (fatty acids) lowers total blood cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein levels. Lx)w levels of these substances are associated with reduced risk of coronary heart disease and atherogenesis. Mono-unsaturated fatty acids may be beneficial in lower blood cholesterol (Sheppard and Rudolf, 1991). 

During the course of lipolysis the liberation of free fatty acid lowers the pH. This necessitates large buffer capacities in in vitro experiments. In the alkaline range especially, the effect of pH on esteras or lipase action may be a combined effect upon the reactants, the products, and the enzyme protein. 

According to Gordon et al. (1957) the unsaturated fatty acids lower the plasma cholesterol in man by an increased conversion to bile acids and fecal excretion of the latter. Lewis (1958) confirmed this in studies in three pa-... 

During the 1980s, research indicated that trans fatty acids have an effect on blood cholesterol similar to that of saturated fats, although study results vary. Several studies reported that trans fatty acids raise the levels of LDL-cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins containing cholesterol that can accumulate in the arteries. Some studies also report that trans fatty acids lower HDL-cholesterol, high-density lipoproteins that carry cholesterol to the liver to be excreted. 

We have already seen that membrane lipids can exist in the gel- or liquid-crystalline phases, depending on the prevailing temperature. Whereas isolated lipid samples show a sharp gel-liquid phase transition, naturally occurring lipids show broad non-cooperative transitions due to the heterogeneity of their acyl chains. For a series of molecular species of, say, phosphatidylcholine, the temperature Tc) for the gel-liquid phase transition depends on the fatty acid composition (with cis unsaturated fatty acids lowering Tc) and even on the position of acyl esterification (Table 8.2). 

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