monoacylglyceride

English

Noun

monoacylglyceride (plural monoacylglycerides)

1. Synonym of monoglyceride (of a typical fatty acid)
   • 2015 August 6, Rodney A. Velliquette et al., “Identification of a botanical inhibitor of intestinal diacylglyceride acyltransferase 1 activity via in vitro screening and a parallel, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial”, in Nutrition & Metabolism‎^[1], volume 12, →DOI:

     MG and FA are then absorbed into the small intestinal enterocytes and repackaged into diacylglyercides (DG) by monoacylglyceride acyltransferase transferase.