2.21 Amino Acids
Amino acids are smaller units in the make up.
What are Proteins?
These are lipids and components of triglycerides and phospholipids as well.
What are fatty acids?
Involved in chemical and mechanical digestion.
What is the stomach?
A live microorganism that is consumed and colonizes in the body.
What is probiotic?
Complexes of lipids and protein.
What are lipoproteins?
What is the structure of an amino acid?
A methyl end and an acid end.
What are the structural ends to fatty acids?
What is mucosa?
A non-digestible food component that when consumed selectively stimulates growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria.
What is prebiotic?
Proteins within a lipoprotein.
What are apolipoproteins?
What is a peptide bond?
What are the three ways fatty acids differ from each other?
What are gastric pits?
What is Inulin?
Lipoproteins released from the small intestine.
What are chylomicrons?
Three amino acids can form.
What is a tripeptide?
What is a short-chain fatty acid?
Stimulates chief cells to release pepsinogen and also stimulates parietal cells to release HCl.
What is gastrin?
A product that contains both probiotics and prebiotics.
What is synbiotic?
Cells that line blood vessels contain the enzyme called lipoprotein lipase.
What are endothelial cells?
A chain of amino acids.
What is a polypeptide chain?
What is a polyunsaturated fatty acid?
What is pepsin?
Metabolites secreted by the microbiota.
Referred to as the "good cholesterol".
What is HDL?