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Preparation, Purification, and Use of Fatty Acid-containing Liposomes
Published on: February 9, 2018
[The use of a fatty emulsion for determining blood lipids in parenteral nutrition]
Abstract:
The author has investigated the possibility of using as the reference agent in estimation of the resorption rate from vascular bed of fatty emulsions the very agent that is introduced or the oil, one of the ingredients of this agent. Fatty emulsions for parenteral nutrition intralipid (Sweden), lipofundin-C (Finland), venolipid (Japan), lipidin and lipidin-2 (USSR), and specially purified sunflower oil were used to plot the calibration curve.
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