Outline for Chapter 17: Oxidation of Fatty Acids

 

The digestion and transport of lipids

          Problems of insolubility

          Role of lipases

          The carnitine shuttle to the mitochondria

 

Degradation of fatty acids

          Chemistry of the b-oxidation cycle

          Production of energy

          Oxidation of unsaturated, and odd-numbered fatty acids

 

Role of peroxisomes

 

The role of ketone bodies