Meanings
noundocosatetraene (plural docosatetraenes)
plural docosatetraenes
- A diene that has 22 carbon atoms and four double bonds.
When corn oil was used in the diet, the docosatetraene and, to a lesser extent, the pentaene were present in higher concentrations than when lard was the dietary fat.
1963, Brian L. Walker, Fred A. Kummerow, “Dietary Fat and the Structure and Properties of Rat Erythrocytes”, in The Journal of Nutrition, volume 80, page 79
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