Lipid metabolism encompasses the integrated biochemical pathways by which fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, sterols, and their derivatives are synthesised, stored, transported, and oxidised to meet the body's needs for energy, membrane structure, and signalling. Core processes include dietary lipid absorpti…
Lipid metabolism encompasses the integrated biochemical pathways by which fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, sterols, and their derivatives are synthesised, stored, transported, and oxidised to meet the body's needs for energy, membrane structure, and signalling. Core processes include dietary lipid absorption and packaging into lipoproteins, de novo lipogenesis, fatty-acid beta-oxidation, ketogenesis, cholesterol biosynthesis and efflux, and the hormonal control of lipolysis in adipose tissue. These pathways are coordinated with carbohydrate handling and insulin signalling, so their disturbance is central to dyslipidaemia, atherosclerosis, obesity, hepatic steatosis, and the broader metabolic syndrome. Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids such as EPA and DHA modulate circulating triglycerides and inflammatory mediators, while plant-derived and pharmacological agents are studied for hypolipidaemic and antioxidant effects. Research published in this area by the journal addresses these themes through work on the efficacy of DHA and EPA on serum triglycerides, hypolipidaemic plant extracts compared with statin therapy, atherosclerosis risk-factor profiling, adipose-tissue physiology and obesity reversal, antioxidant micronutrients in metabolic syndrome, and the analysis of lipid components in subcellular brain fractions. Together these approaches span clinical, nutritional, animal-model, and biochemical perspectives on how lipid handling shapes cardiometabolic health and disease.
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