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Lipids Containing Multiple Carbon Rings
- 1. STEROLS
- 2. Sterols Sterols: lipids containing multiple rings of carbon atoms • Essential components of cell membranes and many hormones • Manufactured in our bodies and therefore not an essential component of our diet • Cholesterol is the major sterol found in the body © 2018 Pearson Education, Inc.
- 3. Sterols © 2018 Pearson Education, Inc.
- 4. Sterols • Sterols – type of lipid that has a more chemically complex structure than triglycerides and phospholipids. • Cholesterol is the most well-known sterol: • Access the text alternative for slide images. 4
- 5. Sterol Functions • Carbons are arranged in multi-ringed structures • Cholesterol is a type of sterol used to make: • Sex hormones • Active form of vitamin D • Adrenal hormones • Bile • Cell membranes • Shell-covering chylomicrons 5
- 6. © McGraw Hill, LLC Sources of Sterols1 Cholesterol is found in foods of animal origin: • Meat • Fish • Poultry • Eggs • Dairy products Can also be synthesized in the body 6
- 7. © McGraw Hill, LLC Sources of Sterols2 Plants make sterols, stanols, and sitostanols. Ergostanol • Active form of vitamin D Beta sitostanol • Added to some margarine • Can help reduce absorption of bile and cholesterol 7