1. Liver triglyceride synthesis failure in post-spawning salmon
- Author
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C. F. Phleger
- Subjects
Ovulation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical chemistry ,Biology ,Acetates ,Biochemistry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Salmon ,Internal medicine ,Hepatic lipogenesis ,medicine ,Animals ,Phospholipids ,Triglycerides ,Carbon Isotopes ,Triglyceride ,Cholesterol ,Organic Chemistry ,Proteins ,Water ,Esters ,Cell Biology ,Lipid Metabolism ,Lipids ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,Liver ,Lipogenesis ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Female ,Chromatography, Thin Layer ,Liver triglyceride ,Energy source ,Salmonidae ,Lipidology - Abstract
The ability of liver of pink salmon,Onchorhychus gorbuscha, to synthesize triglycerides is lost after migration into fresh water and spawning. Triglyceride fatty acids are probably mobilized as cholesterol esters as energy sources in these starving fish. Total lipid decreases; cholesterol remains constant; and relative values of protein and water increase in the liver of the spawned out fish. Both hepatic lipogenesis and cholesterol synthesis decrease. Control values are given for river whitefish. *** DIRECT SUPPORT *** A00M6041 00006
- Published
- 1971