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Disorders of Fatty Acids

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Biology of Brain Dysfunction

Abstract

Fatty acids are a major constituent of brain, (1–3) and furthermore they appear to have crucial roles in determining the properties of membranes. Consequently, any substantive derangement of neural tissues might be expected to have, as one of its effects, a change in fatty acid composition. One of the major problems in evaluating data on fatty acid composition is that of differentiating primary changes in fatty acid metabolism from changes secondary to other abnormalities.

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