Occurrence of methyl esters in the pancreas

Abstract

By column chromatography two lipid fractions, x1 and x2 of which there are only traces in the lipids of other organs, have been isolated from the pancreatic lipids. The lipid fraction x2, which forms a very considerable proportion of the total lipids of the pancreas, has been found to be composed of the methyl esters of lauric, myristic, tetradecenoic, palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and arachidic acids. Fraction x1 was not analyzed.