HTHSCI 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chylomicron, Flu Season, Blood Test
10 Nov 2016
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Ana, who will be a year old next week, was adopted from an orphanage in china at 9 months. She has one tooth and has issues with her legs and ribs. Rickets is the answer when we are talking about vitamin d and the fat soluble vitamins. Fat soluble vitamins: vitamin a, vitamin d, vitamin e, and vitamin k. There are only 4 fat soluble vitamins. They do need the fat to be absorbed into the body. Requirement for dietary fat and bile acids for absorption in the intestine. Chylomicrons are the transport system for these molecules, travel with triglycerides in the lymph to enter bloodstream. The chylomicrons are the ones that transport the fat. They go in through the lymph and then through the blood stream and then travel through the body. Fat-soluble vitamins able to be stored in body, increases danger of building up to toxic levels.
