Exam 1 - Lecture 3 8/28 Flashcards
Sources of cholesterol
Exogenous 20% and endogenous 80%
Why is cholesterol hard to lower by just diet?
Most of your cholesterol, 80%, is made in the body and not by the food you eat. Statins medication will better help lower cholesterol.
6 compounds of cholesterol metabolites
E2 estradiol, Testosterone, Progesterone, aldosterone, Androstenedione, and Cortisol
What is progesterone?
Cholesterol metabolite, sex hormone
Aldosterone
Stress hormone in the adrenal glands
Cortisol
Stress hormone in the adrenal glands
What’s the similarity between aldosterone and cortisol?
They are both secreted by adrenal gland and their compounds are extremely similar. They may be able to attach themselves to each others receptors due to similarities. If Aldosterone is low, cortisol may be able to bind to aldosterone receptors.
E2 Estradiol
Sex hormone
Androstenedione
Testosterone precursor, baseball players used this back in the 90’s as performance enhancing.
Testosterone
Sex hormone
Arachidonic Acid
Imp precursor. Long, large fatty acid chains that hangout in cell walls. Parent compound to many things such as cox1/2, prostaglandins, HETE/EET, Leukotrines
PhosphatidylINOSITOL (PI)
On the polar head of the phospholipid, found in the smooth muscle to regulate contraction.
PhosphatidylSERINE (cytosolic)
Immune marker, should stay inside cell wall if the cell is healthy. When unhealthy, it will stick outside the cell and be an immune marker for the body to attack it. Related to flipase enzyme
Flipase
Enzymes in cell wall that will correct serine from being outside the cell, flips it back inside cell. Need good supply of ATP to do this, and when a dying cell runs out of ATP that is why the sick cell then has serines on the outside because flipase can’t do its job.
PhosphatidylETHANOLAMINE (PE)
NOTHING SPECIAL LOL
PhosphatidylCHOLINE (PCh)
Storage molecule for transduction. Stashes choline, needed for acetylcholine.
What do all Phosphatidyl- precursors play a role in?
Lung surfactant