Fatty acid total

For determination of total fatty acids lipids must be split by alkaline hydrolysis. Hydrolysis of lipids from purified lipid extracts is preferable to hydrolysis of tissues or serum directly. After extraction of unsaponifiable matter fatty acids are recovered from their soaps by treatment with acids and can subsequently be assayed by titration. During hydrolysis high concentrations of alkali must be avoided to prevent isomerization of unsaturated fatty acids. A suitable method for quantitation of plasma total fatty acids was described by Albrink (1959/1960). 

Free fatty acids occur only in small amounts in biological materials. They can be recovered from ether or petroleum ether extracts by extraction with diluted aqueous or alcoholic alkaline solutions as the corresponding alkaline salts and reconverted to free acids by treatment with acids. The use of diluted alkaline solutions prevents hydrolytic cleavage of glycerides and glycerophospholipids. Free fatty acids may also be isolated by adsorption to basic ion exchange resins (Carlson and Wadstrom 1958, Hornstein et al. 1960). Because of a tendency of polyunsaturated fatty acids to isomerization Biegler et al. (1960) recommend the use of weak basic adsorbents. After isolation free fatty acids are assayed by titration. 

A convenient method for quantitation of free fatty acids in plasma, incubation mixtures, tissue homogenates etc. was introduced by Dole (1956), according to which the free fatty acids are extracted directly with an isopropanol-heptane mixture from acidified samples. Further addition of heptane and water results in formation of a two-phase system. Aliquots of the upper heptane phase containing the free fatty acids are titrated with a dilute solution of aqueous sodium hydroxide. 

For elimination of dicarbonic acids and phospholipids which interfere with titration washing of the final heptane extracts with dilute sulfuric acid is recommended (Trout et al. 1960, Friedberg et al. 1960). For the same reasons Gordon and Cherkes (1956) and Gordon et al. (1957) used extraction of lyophil-ized plasma with isooctane and acetic acid. Lyophilization is unnecessary if extraction is performed with isooctane-acetic acid anhydride-acetic acid-sulfuric acid mixture (Shafrir 1958, Shafrir and Steinberg 1960). 

Difficulties arising from titration in the two-phase system of heptane and aqueous sodium hydroxide may be overcome by using a non-aqueous titration mixture (tetrabutylammonium hydroxide) according to Kelley (1965). 

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Colourless liquid. B.p. 286 C/100 mm., insoluble in water. Oleic acid occurs naturally in larger quantities than any other fatty acid, being present as glycerides in most fats and oils. It forms one third of the total fatty acids of cow s milk. A crude grade from inedible tallow is used in the production of lubricants, detergents, resins and other products. 

Values for fatty acids are % of total fatty acid content. ... 

Adsorption. Many studies have been made of the adsorption of soaps and synthetic surfactants on fibers in an attempt to relate detergency behavior to adsorption effects. Relatively fewer studies have been made of the adsorption of surfactants by soils (57). Plots of the adsorption of sodium soaps by a series of carbon blacks and charcoals show that the fatty acid and the alkaU are adsorbed independently, within limits, although the presence of excess aLkaU reduces the sorption of total fatty acids (58). No straightforward relationship was noted between detergency and adsorption. 

Fig. 1. Relative composition of root microsomal membranes from 24 land races, varieties and breeding lines of rice which differ in their salt resistance. Campesterol, Stigmasterol and Sitosterol as % of total sterols 16 0, 18 1, 18 2 and 18 3 fatty acids as % of total fatty acids Na transport on a relative scale from (1) lowest to (9) highest. Data of D.R. Lachno, T.J. Flowers A.R. Yeo (unpublished).

Table 6.2 Main fatty acid components of vegetable oils (as percentage of total fatty acids)...

Lipid peroxidation is a radical-mediated chain reaction resulting in the degradation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) that contain more than two covalent carbon-carbon double bonds (reviewed by Esterbauer et al., 1992). One of the major carriers of plasma lipids is LDL, a spherical molecule with a molecular weight of 2.5x10 . A single LDL particle contains 1300 PUFA molecules (2700 total fatty-acid molecules) and is... 

Lipid C. pyrenoidosa % of total fatty acids C. vulagaris M. aeruginosa... 

Data are presented as mean percentages of total fatty acids from triplicate experiments S.D.= standard deviation. 

Stearic acid is normally added to a rubber compound at a 2 phr level. Reduction of the stearic acid level can cause problems from the naturally occurring constituents of NR which include fatty acids, as these can vary depending on the supply source. If the total fatty acid level is too low then the cure system can become too sensitive to other inherent materials. 

If a measurement of total fatty acid concentration is desired, short of attempting to sum the amounts of each compound found by gas chromatography, some indirect method must be employed. Harwood and Huyser [94] made iron (III) hydroxamates of the fatty acids and measured these colorimetrically. 

An official gas chromatographic method [29] is available from the determination of volatile fatty acids in sewage sludge. This method is based on gas liquid chromatographic estimation with a flame ionization detector, and is applicable up to 2000mg total volatile fatty acids per litre, while the concentrations of individual fatty acids can also be determined. Where this method is not practicable an empirical method based on the spectrophotometric determination of ferric hydroxamates can be used, giving a value for total fatty acids expressed as acetic acid. For control purposes a rapid test is described in which the volatile fatty acids are determined by electrometric titrimetry on the neutralized sludge obtained from the determination of alkalinity. 

Methods have been described for the determination of total fatty acids in raw sewage sludge. These methods [30-32] require a concentration steps such as simple distillation, steam distillation, evaporation, or extraction [33-35] which resulted in great losses of the volatile matter [36, 37],... 

Note The concentrations, in percent of total fatty acids, are used as variables. 

As shown in Table 1, the acyl moiety of cardiolipin is comprised almost entirely of unsaturated fatty acids. Other membrane phospholipids such as phosphatidyl choline and phosphatidyl ethanolamine contain 1(M0 mol of saturatedfatty acids such as palmitic acid (Ci6 0) and stearic acid (Ci8 0) per 100 mol of total fatty acids. In particular,linoleic acid (Cl8 2) is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid consisting of 80 mol%, linolenic acid (Cl8 3) 8 mol%, and oleic acid (Ci8 i) 6 mol%. Therefore, by using a commercially available cardiolipin purified from bovine heart mitochondria, we characterized auto-oxidation products by reverse phase HPTLC and reverse phase HPLC. 

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Long-chain fatty acids in the human diet are mainly palmitic (16C), oleic (18C) and stearic acids (18C) as well as the polyunsaturated fatty acids (18C, 20C and 22C). Almost all of the fatty acids in the diet have an even number of carbon atoms and are unbranched. Many are unsaturated. Indeed, in human adipose tissue, more than half of the total fatty acids are unsaturated (Chapter 11). 

It is well established that dietary (n-6) and (n-3) LCP modulate Thl and Th2 immune cell responses generation in the adult (Calder and Grimble, 2002). Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (AA) constitute a relatively small fraction of the total fatty acids in human breast milk, but have recently been suggested to participate in immime development... 

Laurie acid incorporation. Laurie acid (50%) from the oil, administered to rats for 6 weeks, produced no significant difference between the experimental distribution of triacylglycerol types and the random distribution, calculated from the total fatty acid composition . 

TABLE 5.3 Fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acids) of the morama bean reported as mean SD... 

The effects of storage on lipids depend on potato variety (Mondy et al., 1963). Tuber storage at 4°C resulted in an initial small increase in total fatty acid content (Dobson et al., 2004). Prolonged storage resulted in a fall to the initial values detected close to harvest. The content... 

Bovine milk fat contains low concentrations of keto and hydroxy acids (each at c. 0.3% of total fatty acids). The keto acids may have the carbonyl group (C=0) at various positions. The 3-keto acids give rise to methyl O... 

Since about 50% of C16 0 and 100% of C18 0, C18 , and C18.2 are derived from blood lipids, about 50% of the total fatty acids in ruminant milk fat originate from the blood via diet or other organs. 

Common triglycerides may be separated by GC at high temperature (350°C) by total fatty acid chain length (e.g., tripalmitin and tristearin have total fatty acid chain lengths of 48 carbons and 54 carbons, respectively). 

The esters were eluted with acetonitrile/THF/water (466 233 300) at a flow rate of 2.0 ml/min. Following the transesterification and urea crystallization steps, the concentrated ethyl esters were dissolved (1 mg//zl total fatty acid ethyl esters) in peroxide-free THF containing 0.005% BHT as an antioxidant and injected into the chromatograph. 

Separation of TGs has been a general problem for many years. For several years such separations were carried out more or less by GC procedures. However, the GC method gives insufficient information to provide a complete TG composition of a complex mixture, even when combined with the total fatty acid composition or distribution. 

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