| Title: | Analysis of 4-methyloctanoic acid and other medium chain-length fatty acid constituents of ovine tissue lipids |
| Author(s): | Johnson CB; Wong E; Birch EJ; |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0024-4201 (Print) 0024-4201 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Medium chain-length (C6-C9) fatty acids in depot, intramuscular, kidney, and liver lipids from pasture-fed sheep and subcutaneous and intramuscular lipids from barley-fed sheep were analyzed with emphasis on the 4-methyloctanoic acid (hircinoic acid) content. Within individual animals, the level of hircinoic acid in the subcutaneous fat was usually higher than that either in the deeper depot fats or in the intramuscular fat. Variation of hircinoic acid levels between animals was greatest in the subcutanous fat and least in the perinrphric fat. There were usually higher levels of both branched and odd carbon chain fatty acids in the lipids of barley-fed sheep than in the corresponding lipids of pasture-fed sheep" |
| Keywords: | "Adipose Tissue/chemistry Animals Caprylates/*analysis Chromatography, Gas Crosses, Genetic Fatty Acids/*analysis Female Kidney/chemistry *Lipids/isolation & purification Liver/chemistry Male Muscles/chemistry Organ Specificity Pheromones/*analysis Sheep;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineJohnson, C B Wong, E Birch, E J eng 1977/04/01 Lipids. 1977 Apr; 12(4):340-7. doi: 10.1007/BF02533636" |
