[Metabolism of free fatty acids in fatty tissue]

Hyperlipacidaemias play a role as etiological partial factor in the pathogenesis of various acute and chronic functional disturbances and are essentially the sequel of a disturbed metabolism of the free fatty acids of the fatty tissue. With regard to its clinical relevance a survey is given of the free fatty acid metabolism of the fatty tissue and its free fatty acid net balance as resultants from lipolysis and triglyceride synthesis is described. The author deals with the regulation of the lipolysis by cyclic mononucleotides, adenosine triphosphate, adenosine, fatty acids, ions, beta-hydroxybutyrate, lactate as well as hormones and finally with the control of the triglyceride synthesis.