Are large lipoprotein particles that transport dietary lipids from the intestines to other locations in the body. Chylomicrons are one of the five major groups of lipoproteins (chylomicrons, VLDL, IDL, LDL, HDL) that enable fats and cholesterol to move within the water-based solution of the bloodstream.
One of three major classes of lipoproteins that carry food fats from the intestines into the bloodstream and to the liver and other tissues.
Plasma lipoproteins containing newly absorbed fat, assembled in the small intestinal mucosa and secreted into the lymphatic system, circulating in the lymph and bloodstream as a source of fat for tissues. The remnants are cleared by the liver.
These are organized blobs of fats, synthesized in the submucosa of the small intestine out of dietary lipids and cholesterol, carried out of the intestinal tract by the lymph, and slowly released into the bloodstream. In the capillaries, the triglycerides inside the chylomicrons are absorbed into the tissues for fuel or storage, and the outside cholesterol and phospholipid transport-cover continues through the blood to be absorbed by the liver for its use. This sideways approach takes (ideally) a large part of dietary fats into the lymph back alleys, spreading their release into the bloodstream out over many hours, thereby avoiding short-term blood fat and liver fat overload. To synthesize the maximum amount of dietary fats into chylomicrons, you need well-organized emulsification and digestion of lipids by the gallbladder and pancreas.
A particle of emulsified fat present in the lymph are especially numerous after a meal high in fat content, chyle.
Particle of emulsified fat in bloodstream.
A particle of chyle present in the blood.
Fat-protein complex formed to carry absorbed dietary fats from the intestine to other tissues; not normally found in the blood of a fasting individual.
Lipoproteins synthesized in the intestines that transport triglycerides to the liver.
A microscopic particle of fat present in the blood after fat has been digested and absorbed from the small intestine.
A lipoprotein molecule formed in the small intestine from digested fats for transport of fats to other tissues.
In the realm of biochemistry, there exist mammoth lipoprotein particles which are mainly composed of triglycerides.
A chylomicron is a tiny fat droplet that enters the bloodstream after the digestion of a meal that contains fat.