Higher efficacy of dietary DHA provided as a phospholipid than as a triglyceride for brain DHA accretion in neonatal piglets

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 531-539

  Liu, Lei ^a,b   Bartke, Nana ^c   Van Daele, Hans ^d   Lawrence, Peter ^a   Qin, Xia ^a,b   Park, Hui Gyu ^a   Kothapalli, Kumar ^a   Windust, Anthony ^e   Bindels, Jacques ^c   Wang, Zhe ^b   Brenna, J Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Nutricia Nederland   (Netherlands)

^d BNL Foods   (Luxembourg)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Docosahexaenoic acid; Nutrition; Phosphatidylcholine; Triacylglycerol

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SYNAPTOSOME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; NUTRITION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRAIN; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; DIETARY FATS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; ERYTHROCYTES; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIVER; MALE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RETINA; SWINE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84894801200     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M045930     Document Type: Article

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