monoacylglycerides

A form of monoacylglyceride — Synonym of monoglyceride (of a typical fatty acid)

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noun
  1. pluralplural of monoacylglyceride

    Dietary TG are first broken down into monoacylglycerides (MG) and fatty acids (FA) by a host of pancreatic lipases.

    2015 August 6, Rodney A. Velliquette et al., “Identification of a botanical inhibitor of intestinal diacylglyceride acyltransferase 1 activity via in vitro screening and a parallel, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial”, in Nutrition & Metabolism, volume 12, →DOI
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