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IT can be concluded from animal data that the human foetus synthesizes lipids, chiefly from carbohydrates1–3. We have measured the synthesis of fatty acids and sterols from acetate and citrate in human foetal tissue taken at various periods of gestation. The total lipid content of the organs and the ability of the 8 week placenta to take up palmitate and incorporate it into lipids was also determined.
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01 January 1968
In Table 2 of the article "In vitro 'Lipid' Metabolism in the Developing Human Foetus" by Jacques F. Roux, A. Grigorian and Y. Takeda (Nature, 216, 819; 1967), the figures under the column headed "Brain" should read 100, 300, ?, 340 and 720.
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ROUX, J., GRIGORIAN, A. & TAKEDA, Y. In vitro “Lipid” Metabolism in the Developing Human Foetus. Nature 216, 819–820 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216819a0
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