Digestion of dietary lipid

Summary
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Reactome
R-HSA-192456
PubChem
R-HSA-192456
Description
  • Dietary lipids such as long-chain triacylglycerols and cholesterol esters are digested in the stomach and small intestine to yield long-chain fatty acids, monoacylglycerols, glycerol and cholesterol through the action of a variety of lipases, and are then absorbed into enterocytes.
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Acknowledgements

Supported by JST NBDC Grant Number JPMJND2204

Partly supported by NIH Common Fund Grant #1U01GM125267-01


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