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“Lipids” include a variety of materials of differing chemical composition. Triglycerides or “neutral fats” are fatty acid esters of glycerol and serve as a source as well as a store of energy for all higher animals. Phospholipids, which are complex lipids found in all plant and animal tissues, are especially abundant in nervous tissue; they may constitute up to 30% of the dry matter of the brain. On hydrolysis, some phospholipids yield glycerol, fatty acids, phoshoric acid, and a base such as choline (in phosphatidyl choline or “lecithin”) or ethanolamine (in phosphatidyl ethanolamine), or the amino acid serine (in phosphatidyl serine); the latter two groups of phospholipids were originally classified as “cephalins.” Other phospholipids yield glycerol, fatty acids, phosphoric acid, and the cyclic polyalcohol inositol (phosphatidyl inositol). Sphingomyelins, another important group, consist of a fatty acid, phosphoric acid, choline, and the base sphingosine.
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Griminger, P. (1986). Lipid Metabolism. In: Sturkie, P.D. (eds) Avian Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4862-0_15
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