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. 2017 Feb 27;22(2):117–129. doi: 10.1007/s10911-017-9376-9

Table 2.

Lipid composition of the bovine milk fat globule membrane (adapted from Ref. [11, 14])

Lipid component % of total lipids of the MFGM
*- % of phospholipids
Triacylglycerols 56.0–62.0
Diacylglycerols 2.1–9.0
Monoacylglycerols 0.4
Free fatty acids 0.6–6.0
Sterols 0.2–2.0
Sterol esters 0.1–0.3
Phospholipids 26.0–40.6
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) *31.0–36.0
Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) *27.0–30.5
Sphingomyelin (SM) *19.9–22.0
Phosphatidylinositol (PI) *7.1–11.0
Phosphatidylserine (PS) *4.0–5.0
Lactosyl-cerebroside *3.4
Lysophosphatidylcholine *2.0
Glucosyl-cerebroside *0.3