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  • Title: Lipid absorption and metabolism.
    Author: Kuksis A, Shaikh NA, Hoffman AG.
    Journal: Environ Health Perspect; 1979 Dec; 33():45-55. PubMed ID: 540625.
    Abstract:
    Metabolic processes occurring within the mucosal cell are critical in determining results of interactions between environmental agents and the alimentary tract. The absorption, metabolism, and transport of lipids affects most those agents which are lipid soluble. The understanding of the process involved in lipid absorption and transport is therefore important for both appreciation of the mechanism of uptake of these toxins and for an effective interference with it. Most of the detailed mechanisms of lipid absorption and transport have been proposed from in vitro studies with soluble cell-free systems. The present review integrates these results with recent in vivo and in vitro findings with intact animal tissues and isolated mucosal cells. While there is much general agreement occasional startling differences are also observed, which may have a bearing on the mechanism of normal fat absorption and on the understanding of the transport of the fat-soluble toxins across the mucosal villus cell.
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