"Glycerophospholipids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Derivatives of phosphatidic acid in which the hydrophobic regions are composed of two fatty acids and a polar alcohol is joined to the C-3 position of glycerol through a phosphodiester bond. They are named according to their polar head groups, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine.
| Descriptor ID |
D020404
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D10.570.755.375.760.400
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Trans unsaturated fatty acids are less oxidizable than cis unsaturated fatty acids and protect endogenous lipids from oxidation in lipoproteins and lipid bilayers. Biochemistry. 2003 Oct 07; 42(39):11533-43.