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. 2023 May 15;5(2):e00021. doi: 10.1097/IN9.0000000000000021

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Figure 1. — Pathway of dietary fatty acids following digestion. Following enzymatic digestion in stomach, (1) bile salts from the gall bladder emulsify FAs and MAGs during entry into the duodenum. (2) FAs greater than 14-carbons in length are packaged into micelles that ferry them into enterocytes from the lumen. (3) FAs are resynthesized into TAGs in the ER, followed by (4) repackaging into chylomicrons within the Golgi. (5) Chylomicrons are carried in vesicles through the lymphatics within chylomicrons, and may encounter monocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils. Figure was created with biorender.com (https://www.biorender.com/). ER, endoplasmic reticulum; FA, fatty acid; MAG, monoacylglyceride; TAG, triacylglyceride.