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ME03 - Lipid Significance Flashcards

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Importance of Lipids

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_fats, oils, steroids, waxes

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Common Physical proprties of Lipids

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Relatively insoluble in water soluble in nonpolar solvents

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3
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Important Dietary constituents

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fat-soluble vitamins Micronutrients long chain omega-3 fatty acids

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4
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Where are lipids stored in the body

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Adipose Tissue

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Clinical Diseases that Involve Lipids

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obesity, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis

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Classification of Lipids

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  1. Simple lipids A. Fats- Triglycerols, Oils B. Waxes Do not have triglyceride ester of three fatty acids Fatty acid and alcohol esters 2. Complex lipids A. Phospholipids - lipid with phosphate grp Glycolipids (glycosphingolipids) - Other complex lipids - Lipoproteins 3. Precursor and derived lipids fatty acids, glycerol, steroids, other alcohols, fatty aldehydes, ketone bodies, hydrocarbons, lipid-soluble vitamins and micronutrients, and hormones
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Fatty Acids are Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, True or False

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TRUE

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8
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Transport form in the plasma

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Free Fatty Acids

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9
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Lipids that contain no double bonds

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Saturated, Example: Acetic Acid (CH3COOH), Butyric(4) Valeric (5) Caproic (6) Lauric (12) Myristic (14) Palmitic (16) Stearic (18)

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Lipids containing one or more double bonds

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Unsaturated Example: Monounsaturated Polyunsaturated Eicosanoids - Eicosa (20-carbon) polyenoic fatty acids Prostanoids, Leukotrienes (LTs), Lipoxins (LXs)

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Unsaturated fatty acids has a higher melting point than saturated fatty acids

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TRUE

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12
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C16:0 or 16:0

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Palmitic, No. of C = number of double bonds

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C18:2 (9,12) w-carbon (methyl carbon)

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Linoleic acid

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C18:3 (9,12,15)

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Linolenic acid

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15
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What are essential Lipids

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Linoleic acid; Linolenic Acid (ADEK)

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16
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Essential Amino Acids needed since Linoleic and Linolenic Acid cannot be made by the human body

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Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Valine + (Arginine for infants)

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17
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Is there such thing as an essential carbohydrates?

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NO, THERE’S NONE.

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18
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Types of Geometric Isomerism

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cis- If the acyl chains are on the same side of the bond (oleic acid) Double bonds in fatty acids Trans- If the acyl chains are on opposite sides (elaidic acid)

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19
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Most naturally occuring unsaturated fatty acid

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Unsaturated fatty acids that have CIS-DOUBLE BONDS

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20
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Disease associated with trans and saturated fatty acids

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Atherosclerosis

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21
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Trans double bonds are ____________

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Unnatural. It causes decreased fluidity (Ex. Margarine)

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Physical and Physiologic Properties of Fatty Acids

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More saturated = More solid at body temperature Polyunsaturated= Liquid to below zero dec celsius membrane lipids| Hibernators

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23
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What are Omega 3 Faty Acids

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_-linolenic (ALA) - Found in plant oils eicosapentaenoic (EPA) - found in fish oil docosahexaenoic (DHA) - found in fish and algal oils

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Clinical Significance of Omega 3 Fatty Acids

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anti-inflammatory effects promoting the synthesis of less inflammatory prostaglandins and leukotrienes cardiovascular disease Cancer Rheumatoid arthritis Alzheimer disease

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Main storage forms of fatty acids

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Triglycerides (C1 and C3 of glyceril are not identical when viewed in three dimensions)

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Precursor of Phospholipids, Influence membranes and acts in Signalling

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Phosphatidic Acid

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Glycerophospholipids containing choline

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Lecithins (phosphatidylcholine) most abundant phospholipids of the cell membrane

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Why is Choline important?

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Important in Nervous transmission, as acetylcholine, and as store of labile methyl groups

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Phospholipid that acts as surfactant

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Dipalmitoyl Lecithin contains Type II alveolar cells preventing adherence, due to surface tension, of the inner surfaces of the lungs

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Clinical Significance of Dipalmitoyl lecithin as surfactant

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Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Ethanolamine or serine, respectively, replaces choline

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_Phosphatidylethanolamine (cephalin) and phosphatidylserine

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Plays a role in apoptosis (programmed cell death)

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_Phosphatidylethanolamine (cephalin) and phosphatidylserine

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Found in the outer leaflet of the cell membrane lipid bilayer, lipid rafts, and myelin sheath

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Sphingomyelins

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Function of Sphingomyelins

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Cell signaling and apoptosis

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Phopholipid found only in mitochondria

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Phosphatidylglycerol

36
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Gives rise to Cardiolipin

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Phosphatidylglycerol

37
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Alterations in functions of Phosphatidylglycerol can result to

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heart failure and hypothyroidism and aging

38
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Gives rise to Lysolecithin important in the metabolism and interconversion of phospholipids found in oxidized lipoproteins

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Lysophosphatidylcholine

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Clinical Significance of Lysophosphatidylcholine

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Atherosclerosis

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Lipids with an attached carbohydrate or carbohydrate chain Widely distributed in every tissue of the body, particularly in nervous tissue; Occur partly in the outer leaflet of plasma membrane Contributes to Glycocalyx

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Glycolipids

41
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Major glycosphingolipid of brain and other nervous tissue

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_Galactosylceramide

42
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Galactosylceramide is converted to ______ which is present in high amounts in MYELIN

43
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Resembles galactosylceramide, head group is glucose rather than galactise

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Glucosylceramide

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Complex glycosphingolipids derived from glucosylceramide

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Gangliosides

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Function of Gangliosides

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GM1 - Function in cell-cell recognition and communication and as receptors for hormones and bacterial toxins (cholera)

46
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Predominant simply glycosphingoloid of extraneural tissues

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Glucosylceramide

47
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What is the precursor of Steroids

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Cholesterol

48
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Precursor of large number of employed steroids includes;

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Bile Acids, Adrenocortical Hormones, Sex hormones, Vitamin D & Cardiac Glycosides

49
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What is the precursor of Vitamin D

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Ergosterol

50
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Not steroids Related because they are synthesized, like cholesterol from Fivecarbon isoprene units Rubber, camphor, the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, and _-carotene (provitamin A)

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Polyprenoids

51
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Polyprenoid that has Respiratory chain in mitochondria

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Ubiquinone

52
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Polyprenoid that takes part in glycoprotein synthesis

53
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Auto-oxidation of lipids Responsible for rancidity of foods Damage to tissues in vivo Cancer, inflammatory diseases, atherosclerosis, and aging

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Lipid Peroxidation

54
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Molecules that have unpaired valence electrons Reactive oxygen species (ROS)

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Free Radicals

55
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Chain reaction providing continuous supply of ROS

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Initiation - Propagation - Termination

56
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2 classes of Antioxidants

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  1. Preventive antioxidants Catalase| EDTA | DTPA | Glutathione peroxidase 2. Chain-breaking antioxidants Superoxide dismutase | vitamin E
57
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Why are LIPIDS insoluble in water

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Predominance of nonpolar (hydrocarbon) groups

58
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Part of the molecule is hydrophobic, or water insoluble; and a part is hydrophilic, or water soluble

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AMPHIPATHIC - Micelles, Liposomes

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