Table 1.

General recommendations for examining and reporting fatty acid effects in cell culture and isolated tissue experiments

Variable	Recommendation
Fatty acid concentration	Mixture: 50–1,500 μM; individual: 50–750 μM
Fatty acid mixtures	1:1 or 1:2 Palmitate/oleate; 1:2:1 palmitate/oleate/linoleate (or any mixture at physiological ratios)
Albumin concentration	0.5–3:1 Fatty acid/albumin molar ratio
l-carnitine	1 mM
Reporting	List the fatty acid species in the title if only 1 fatty acid is used