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The sinusoids transport both portal and arterial blood to the hepatocytes. The systemic blood delivered to the liver contains nutrients, drugs, and ingested toxins. The liver processes the nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals) for either immediate use or for storage, while the drugs and toxins are metabolized through a variety of processes known as first-pass metabolism. The liver also processes metabolic waste products for excretion. In cirrhosis, bilirubin (from the enzymatic breakdown of heme) can accumulate this causes jaundice (yellowing of the skin), scleral icterus (yellowing of the sclera), and tea-colored urine (urinary bilirubin excretion). 

Ice cream serves as a wonderful (and tasty) example of a complex, dynamically heterogeneous food system. A typical ice cream mix contains milk or cream (water, lactose, casein and whey proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals), sucrose, stabilizers and emulsifiers, and some type of flavor (e.g., vanilla). After the ingredients are combined, the mix is pasteurized and homogenized. Homogenization creates an oil-in-water emulsion, consisting of millions of tiny droplets of milk fat dispersed in the water phase, each surrounded by a layer of proteins and emulsifiers. The sucrose is dissolved in... 

Bioavailability can be influenced directly or indirectly by many physiological, pathological, chemical, nutritional, and processing conditions. Discussion in this chapter will be limited to unit food processing effects upon the bioavailability of nutrients from plant protein foods. The bioavailability of amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins and minerals from processed foods will be selectively reviewed. Amino Acids... 

Requirements for energy, protein, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins and minerals have been determined for the species commonly cultured (9). As a rule of thumb, trout and salmon diets will, if consumed, support growth and survival in virtually any aquaculture species. Such diets often serve as the control against which experimental diets are compared. 

The demonization of fat, especially milk fat, over the past several decades means that the diet has been deprived of several components with anticancer potential. Milk fat components, such as RA, sphingolipids, butyric acid, certain branched chain fatty acids, ether lipids, vitamins, and novel components introduced from feed, have been shown to prevent tumor development at a number of sites in animal models. 

Impaired protein, carbohydrate, lipid, vitamin and hormonal metabolism... 

By integrating of all the aforementioned parameters into a sophisticated feeding scheme for glucose, amino acids, yeastolate, lipids, vitamins and trace elements combined with optimized oxygen supply, Elias and co-workers [40] reached 5.2x10 Sf-9 cells mL , the current record in maximum density for this cell line operated in fed-batch mode. 

In addition to being rich in phycobiliproteins, Spirulina, a filamentous cyanobacterium, contains a wide variety of nutrients including potentially beneficial proteins, lipids, vitamins, and antioxidants. 

BSEP is a liver-specific and ATP-dependent transport protein that mediates the excretion of bile salts into bile and is expressed on the apical plasma membrane domain (canalicular surface) of hepatocytes (Lam et al., 2010). Bile formation and excretion is an essential biological process in higher vertebrates and is an important route of xenobiotic elimination, which also plays a key role in intestinal dissolution and absorption of lipids, vitamins, and fat-soluble food components. Bile salts are synthesized within hepatocytes by cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of cholesterol and are key components of bile (Hofmann and Hagey, 2008). Bile formation and bile flow are regulated physiologically by complex mechanisms, which in hepatocytes include nuclear hormone receptor-mediated transcriptional pathways and a variety of posttranscriptional processes (Kullak-Ublick et al., 2004 Gonzalez, 2012). 

The function of the hypopharyngeal glands is known only in the honey bee. In nurse worker bees, they secrete a portion of the bee milk , the food given to larvae which is a complex mixture of lipids, vitamins and proteins. They also secrete invertase and an enzyme that oxidizes glucose to an acid (Cruz Landim and Hadek, 1969). 

According to the Webster s New World Dictionary, nutrition is defined as, a series of processes by which an organism takes in and assimilates food for promoting growth and replacing worn or injured tissues. It follows that a nutrient is a substance in food that is essential for maintaining health. These include carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals. Therefore, functional foods contain nutrients in the proper balance to not only help maintain health, but they also contain other compounds that promote and protect health. 

The use of foods by organisms is termed nutrition. The ability of an organism to use a particular food material depends upon its chemical composition and upon the metabolic pathways available to the organism. In addition to essential fiber, food includes the macronutrients—protein, carbohydrate, and lipid—and the micronutrients—including vitamins and minerals. 

Lipids are naturally occurring organic molecules that have limited solubility in water and can be isolated from organisms by extraction with nonpolar organic solvents. Fats, oils, waxes, many vitamins and hormones, and most nonprotein cell-meznbrane components are examples. Note that this definition differs from the sort used for carbohydrates and proteins in that lipids are defined by a physical property (solubility) rather than by structure. Of the many kinds of lipids, we ll be concerned in this chapter only with a few triacvlglycerols, eicosanoids, terpenoids, and steroids. 

Vitamin B6-coenzyme is involved in a variety of reactions, e.g., in the immune system, gluconeogenesis, erythrocyte fimction, niacin formation, nervous system, lipid metabolism, and in hormone modulation/gene expression [1, 2]. 

Because Olestra is not digested, it behaves much like mineral oil. The laxative properties, which are widely discussed, appear on the label. Like other indigestible lipids, Olestra can dissolve fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids, which makes them unavailable for absorption. 

Vitamins and lipids are often required for animal cells to grow in serum-free medium. Phosphoethanolamine and ethanolamine are key additives that facilitate the growth of the mammary tumor cell line 64024 (Kano-Sueoka and Errick, 1981). In addition, ethanolamine promotes the growth of human lymphocytes and mouse hybridoma cells. Short-term cultures of human diploid lung and foreskin fibroblasts grow in medium that includes among its supplements soybean lecithin, cholesterol, sphingomyelin, and vitamin E. 

Precursor and derived lipids These include fatty acids, glycerol, steroids, other alcohols, fatty aldehydes, and ketone bodies (Chapter 22), hydrocarbons, hpid-soluble vitamins, and hormones. 

Cholesterol, an amphipathic lipid, is an important component of membranes. It is the parent molecule from which all other steroids in the body, including major hormones such as the adrenocortical and sex hormones, D vitamins, and bile acids, are synthesized. 

Besides water, the diet must provide metabolic fuels (mainly carbohydrates and lipids), protein (for growth and turnover of tissue proteins), fiber (for roughage), minerals (elements with specific metabolic functions), and vitamins and essential fatty acids (organic compounds needed in small amounts for essential metabolic and physiologic functions). The polysaccharides, tri-acylglycerols, and proteins that make up the bulk of the diet must be hydrolyzed to their constituent monosaccharides, fatty acids, and amino acids, respectively, before absorption and utilization. Minerals and vitamins must be released from the complex matrix of food before they can be absorbed and utifized. 

Natural antioxidants may be classified according to their nutritive value or according to their solubility. The hydrophobic vitamin E and the hydrophilic vitamin C are thus important both as nutrients and as antioxidants. The nonnutritive antioxidants may similarly be divided into lipid-soluble and water-soluble antioxidants, as shown in Fig. 16.3, which will also form the basis for a discussion of exploitation of combinations of anhoxidants in order to improve protective effects. 

Oleosomes — Also called oil bodies, oleosomes are the natural equivalents of liposomes. They are found in plant seeds or fruits, filled with oils, pigments, and vitamins, and serve as specific organelles to store lipid molecules. A protocol to... 

Ramirez-Tortosa, C. et al., Anthocyanin-rich extract decreases indices of lipid peroxidation and DNA damage in vitamin E-depleted rats. Free Radic. Biol. Med., 31, 1033, 2001. 

Lipids have been dehned on the basis of their stmctnre and solnbility. Lipids are natnrally occnrring componnds consisting of fatty acids and their derivatives, bile acids, pigments, vitamins, and steroids, as well as terpenoids, which are usually soluble in organic solvents such as benzene, chloroform, ether, and alcohol, etc., with variable solubility depending on the stmctnre of the lipid compound. 

The importance of vitamin E for maintenance of lipid integrity in vivo is emphasized by the fact that it is the only major lipid-soluble chain-breaking antioxidant found within plasma, red cells and tissue cells. Esterbauer etal. (1991) have shown that the oxidation resistance of LDL increases proportionately with a-tocopherol concentration. In patients with RA, synovial fluid concentrations of a-tocopherol are significantly lower relative to paired serum samples (Fairburn et al., 1992). The low level of vitamin E within the inflamed joint implies it is being consumed via its role in terminating lipid peroxidation and this will be discussed further in Section 3.3. 

In the bile-duct-ligated rat, hepatic mitochondrial lipid peroxides are increased and correlate with serum levels of alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin and alanine aminotransferase (Sokol et al., 1991). Dietary vitamin E deficiency resulted in relatively higher lipid peroxide and bilirubin... 

Sokol, R.J., Devereaux, M. and Khandwala, R,A. (1991). Effect of dietary lipid and vitamin E on mitochondrial lipid peroxidation and hepatic injury in the bile duct-ligated rat. J. Lipid Res. 32, 1349-1357. 

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