TRANSLATION FORM OF DEPOT FAT IN STARVATION

Abstract

Albino rats were maintained on a constant basic diet and fasted for 48 hours, to determine each lipid in serum lipoprotein for comparison with the value before fasting.
As the result, triglyceride in low density lipoprotein appeared to have increased as compared with the prefasting level. Other fats increased only slightly. The fatty acid composition of the increased triglyceride was relatively quite similar to that of depot fat before fasting.
The depot fat thus appeared to be transported during fasting, not in the form of free fatty acid but in the form of a low density lipoprotein, mainly triglyceride.