24461-6
Fatty acids [Moles/volume] in Serum or Plasma
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LP14488-8 Fatty acids
In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid often with a long unbranched aliphatic tail (chain), which is either saturated or unsaturated. Carboxylic acids as short as butyric acid (4 carbon atoms) are considered to be fatty acids, while fatty acids derived from natural fats and oils may be assumed to have at least 8 carbon atoms, e.g. caprylic acid (octanoic acid). Most of the natural fatty acids have an even number of carbon atoms, because their biosynthesis involves acetyl-CoA, a coenzyme carrying a two-carbon-atom group. Industrially, fatty acids are produced by the hydrolysis of the ester linkages in a fat or biological oil (both of which are triglycerides), with the removal of glycerol.
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Source: Wikipedia, Fatty acids (Wikipedia)
LP14488-8 Fatty acids
Organic, monobasic acids derived from hydrocarbons by the equivalent of oxidation of a methyl group to an alcohol, aldehyde, and then acid. Fatty acids are saturated and unsaturated (FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED). (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006
LP14488-8 Fatty acids
Fatty acids are carboxylic acids with a long aliphatic tail, and naturally occurring fatty acids usually have an even number of carbon atoms. Short chain fatty acids have less than six carbons, medium chain have six to twelve, long chain have 14 to 20, and very long chain fatty acids have 22 or more carbon atoms. Fatty acids are important sources of fuel during fasting or times of high metabolic demand, especially for heart and skeletal muscle, and are oxidized by mitochondria to produce ATP. Patients with a fatty acid oxidation disorder are unable to use fatty acids for energy and can present with hypoketotic hypoglycemia, liver disease and failure, skeletal myopathy, cardiomyopathy or sudden death in early life, and severe episodes of metabolic decompensation can occur during periods of fasting or illness.
Source: Regenstrief LOINC
Fully-Specified Name
- Component
- Fatty acids
- Property
- SCnc
- Time
- Pt
- System
- Ser/Plas
- Scale
- Qn
- Method
Additional Names
- Short Name
- FA SerPl-sCnc
- Display Name
- Fatty acids [Moles/Vol]
- Consumer Name Alpha Get Info
- Fatty acids, Blood
Basic Attributes
- Class
- CHEM
- Type
- Laboratory
- First Released
- Version 1.0o
- Last Updated
- Version 2.73
- Order vs. Observation
- Observation
- Common Test Rank Get Info
- 3335
Member of these Panels
LOINC | Long Common Name |
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43674-1 | Fatty acid comprehensive (C8-C26) panel - Serum or Plasma |
43676-6 | Fatty acid essential (C12-C22) panel - Serum or Plasma |
Member of these Groups Get Info
LOINC Group | Group Name |
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LG46571-2 | Fatty acids| |
Language Variants Get Info
Tag | Language | Translation |
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de-DE | German (Germany) | Fettsäuren: |
es-AR | Spanish (Argentina) | ácidos grasos: |
es-ES | Spanish (Spain) | Acidos grasos: Synonyms: Cuantitativo |
es-MX | Spanish (Mexico) | Ácidos grasos: |
et-EE | Estonian (Estonia) | Rasvhapped: Synonyms: Aine kontsentratsioon Juhuslik Kvantitatiivne Plasma Seerum Seerum või plasma |
fr-CA | French (Canada) | Acides gras: |
fr-FR | French (France) | Acides gras: |
fr-BE | French (Belgium) | Acides gras: |
it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Acidi grassi: Synonyms: Chimica Concentrazione di Sostanza Plasma Punto nel tempo (episodio) Siero Siero o Plasma |
ko-KR | Korean (Korea, Republic Of) | 지방산: |
nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | vetzuren: |
pl-PL | Polish (Poland) | Kwasy tłuszczowe: |
pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | Ácidos Graxos: Synonyms: ; |
ru-RU | Russian (Russian Federation) | Жирные кислоты: Synonyms: Количественный Молярность; |
tr-TR | Turkish (Turkey) | Yağ asidleri: |
zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 脂肪酸类: Synonyms: 克分子浓度; |
Example Units
Unit | Source |
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mmol/L | Example UCUM Units |
mmol/L | REGENSTRIEF |
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