Mitochondrial membrane alpha-tocopherol/homologues: super scavengers or peroxidase inhibitors?
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I love research that alters established dogma with new technology (hence Nutritional Blogma), so I felt compelled to highlight this one.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are structurally important in cell and some organelle membranes. For simplicity's sake, we are often shown a representation like this:
Each of the heads with 2 tails represents a phospholipid, which is composed of the polar NH3 group, a phosophate group, glycerol, and 2 fatty acid tails. In this representation, one of the Read more [...]