Requirement criteria for essential fatty acids

The metabolism of 7,10,13,16,19-docosapentaenoic acid to 4,7,10,13,16,19-docosahexaenoic acid in rat liver is independent of a 4-desaturase.

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Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Cellular Metabolism +16

Dietary deficiency of docosahexaenoic acid impairs vision at low light intensities in juvenile herring (<i>Clupea harengus</i> L.)

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Life Sciences, Animal Sciences, Zoology +13

Inability of the cat to desaturate essential fatty acids

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Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Human Nutrition +9

High Dietary Linoleic Acid Affects the Fatty Acid Compositions of Individual Phospholipids from Tissues of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Association with Stress Susceptibility and Cardiac Lesion

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Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Physiology +17

Effects of dietary soybean and cod-liver oil levels on growth and body composition of gilthead bream ( Sparus aurata)

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Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Nutritional Sciences +9