Early steps of Eicosanoid precursor absorption and tissue distribution.
Eicosanoids are important for a wide range of physiological and pathophysiological processes.How their essential fatty acid precursors are absorbed and tissue distributed is not well charactherized. When given orally to rats, arachidonic acid (20:4) was retained in the small intestine to a larger extent than linoleic acid (18:2).More 20:4 than 18:2 was incorporated in phospholipids (PL) of the sma
