Sentences with phrase «chain acyl»

A week after her birth, I learned I would have a harder path ahead than I had expected: The doctors told me that my daughter was born with a rare genetic condition called medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Carnitine transports long - chain acyl groups from fatty acids into the mitochondrial matrix, so that they can be broken down through β - oxidation to acetate to obtain usable energy via the citric acid cycle.

A spike at C - 8 indicates something called medium - chain acyl - CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, which mercifully can be shortened to the acronym MCADD.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Osaka University overcame these limitations with fluorescent SM analogs by joining several fluorescent chemical compounds (fluorophores) that were highly hydrophilic to the hydrophobic lipid part (mainly acyl chains) of the synthetic molecule.

Busik, along with graduate student Nermin Kady, showed that these connecting structures contain omega - linked acyl - very long chain ceramides — elongated lipids that appear to strengthen this barrier.

Im and his colleagues from the University of Kansas, University of Maryland and Stockholm University investigate the differences and similarities of the membrane properties such as area per lipid, hydrophobic thickness, and acyl chain order.