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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 102 No. 1 January 1972, pp. 109-116
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Studies on the Fate of Dietary Linoleic Acid in the Neonatal Rat1

D. M. Derry2

Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada

The method of total body autoradiography combined with thinlayer chromatography has been used to follow the distribution of dietary linoleic acid in the neonatal rat. The main bulk of the linoleic acid was stored in brown and white fat as triglycerides. Lesser amounts were found in the skin.

KEY WORDS: • linoleic acid • brown fat • white fat • neonatal rat • autoradiography

1 Supported in part by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Playfair Foundation.

2 Scholar of the Medical Research Council of Canada.

Manuscript received 22 June 1971.




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