Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency, often shortened to LCHAD deficiency, is a rare autosomal recessive fatty acid oxidation disorder that prevents the body from converting certain fats into energy.

Long-chain fatty acids from food and body fat cannot be metabolized and processed without sufficient levels of this enzyme.

Long-chain fatty acids or partially metabolized fatty acids may build up in tissues and damage the liver, heart, retina, and muscles, causing more serious complications.

Long-chain fatty acids are found in foods such as milk and certain oils.

Long-chain fatty acids or partially metabolized fatty acids may also build up and damage the liver, heart, and muscles.

Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.

Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

He worked on the electrolysis of the salts of fatty and other acids ( Kolbe electrolysis ) and prepared salicylic acid, a building block of aspirin in a process called Kolbe synthesis or Kolbe-Schmitt reaction.

A triglyceride with a glycerol molecule on the left and three fatty acids coming off it.

In triglycerides, the main group of bulk lipids, there is one molecule of glycerol and three fatty acids.

The term lipid comprises a diverse range of molecules and to some extent is a catchall for relatively water-insoluble or nonpolar compounds of biological origin, including waxes, fatty acids, fatty-acid derived phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and terpenoids ( e. g., retinoids and steroids ).

Vegetable oils are rich in various polyunsaturated fatty acids ( PUFA ).

Lipid-containing foods undergo digestion within the body and are broken into fatty acids and glycerol, which are the final degradation products of fats and lipids.

* Supply of nutrients such as glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids ( dissolved in the blood or bound to plasma proteins ( e. g., blood lipids ))

* Fat storage — the yellow bone marrow acts as a storage reserve of fatty acids.

For example, oilseed can be modified to produce fatty acids for detergents, substitute fuels and petrochemicals.

Omega 3 fatty acids, in addition to normal pharmacological treatment, may have beneficial effects on depressive symptoms, although studies have been scarce and of variable quality.

A particularly widespread example are lipid droplets, which are spherical droplets composed of lipids and proteins that are used in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes as a way of storing lipids such as fatty acids and sterols.

Essential fatty acids are required for brain and cell membrane construction.

In this process, fats, obtained from adipose tissue, or fat cells, are broken down into glycerol and fatty acids, which can be used to generate energy.

Diene-containing fatty acids are biosynthesized from acetyl CoA.

In nature, fats are, in general, triesters derived from glycerol and fatty acids.

The idea of lipid flow through a continuous system of membranes and vesicles was an alternative to the various membranes being independent entities that are formed from transport of free lipid components, such as fatty acids and sterols, through the cytosol.

Most naturally occurring fatty acids have a chain of an even number of carbon atoms, from 4 to 28.

When they are not attached to other molecules, they are known as " free " fatty acids.

Many cell types can use either glucose or fatty acids for this purpose.

In particular, heart and skeletal muscle prefer fatty acids.

The brain cannot use fatty acids as a source of fuel ; it relies on glucose or ketone bodies.

Three dimensional representations of several fatty acids

Although the fatty protein molecules, carried in the blood and partly composed of cholesterol, are water soluble, cholesterol itself is insoluble, and cannot be destroyed by the body.

Explains Keys: As the fatty protein molecules travel in the bloodstream, they are deposited in the intima, or inner wall of a coronary artery.

* Alkaline solutions are slippery or soapy to the touch, due to the saponification of the fatty substances on the surface of the skin.

Many axons are wrapped in thick sheaths of a fatty substance called myelin, which serves to greatly increase the speed of signal propagation.

In newborns, all such bones are filled exclusively with red marrow, but as the child ages it is mostly replaced by yellow, or fatty marrow.

The basic units of the breast are the terminal duct lobular units ( TDLUs ), which produce the fatty breast milk.

Because breasts are mostly fatty tissue, their shape can within limits be molded by clothing, such as foundation garments.

Typical courses of Jiangsu cuisine are Jinling salted dried duck ( Nanjing's most famous dish ), crystal meat ( pork heels in a bright, brown sauce ), clear crab shell meatballs ( pork meatballs in crab shell powder, fatty, yet fresh ), Yangzhou steamed Jerky strips ( dried tofu, chicken, ham and pea leaves ), triple combo duck, dried duck, and Farewell My Concubine ( soft-shelled turtle stewed with many other ingredients such as chicken, mushrooms and wine ).

Most naturally occurring fats and oils are the fatty acid esters of glycerol.

* Short-chain fatty acids ( SCFA ) are fatty acids with aliphatic tails of fewer than six carbons ( i. e. butyric acid ).

* Medium-chain fatty acids ( MCFA ) are fatty acids with aliphatic tails of 6 – 12 carbons, which can form medium-chain triglycerides.