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Lipid composition of human bronchial mucus
Author(s) -
Lewis R. W.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02531221
Subject(s) - mucus , lipidology , composition (language) , triglyceride , clinical chemistry , chemistry , biochemistry , food science , fraction (chemistry) , chromatography , cholesterol , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy
Mucus from an asthmatic patient contained lipids which have not been analyzed before. The composition was similar to two other types of mucus lipids. The triglyceride fraction was highly saturated and contained large amounts of short chain fatty acids.