Targeted disruption of stearoyl-CoA desaturase1 gene in mice causes...

The Journal of Nutrition;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Meibomian Glands and Depletion of Wax Esters in the Eyelid1 ABSTRACT Stearoyl-C...the eyelid also is deficient in wax esters. Furthermore, the eyelid and skin...triglycerides, cholesterol esters and wax esters in SCD1 -/- mice to the levels found...cholesterol esters, triglycerides ...

Jojoba Oil Market Levels Out As Industry Matures and Grows.(Brief...

Chemical Market Reporter;  March 6, 2000 ;     666 words ......biodegradable. Jojoba oil is composed of liquid wax esters, its major components being C42 and C40 wax esters. It is attractive to the cosmetics industry...are easily broken down for energy. The wax esters of jojoba are extremely resistant to oxidation...

Dutch Inventors Develop Pourable Fatty Dispersions

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 7, 2007 ;     331 words ......can be obtained by a process comprising the steps: selecting a plant wax, reacting the wax esters from the wax or a reactive derivative of those wax esters with glycerol or with a reactive glycerol derivative, purifying and recovering the obtained...

^sup 1^H and ^sup 13^C NMR Studies of Melon and Head Blubber of the...

Lipids;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......dependence of the T^sub 1^ values on the wax esters content in melon intact tissues was found...correlation; TAG, triacylglycerols; WE, wax esters. It is well known that odontocetes echolocate...main classes: triacylglycerols (TAG) and wax esters (WE), composed by high ...

Daphnia magna Can Tolerate Short-Term Starvation Without Major Changes in...

Lipids;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......classes of most aquatic animals are phosphoglycerides, TAG, wax esters, and sterols (7). The phosphoglycerides and sterols are structural...and functional elements of cell membranes, whereas TAG and wax esters are storage biomolecules that provide metabolic energy through...

Fuel for thought? Beeswax in lamps and conical cups from late Minoan...

Antiquity;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......spectrometry (GC/MS) show the lipid extracts to comprise mixtures of wax esters, long-chain alcohols and alkanes. Compounds of this type occur...particularly with respect to the distribution of long-chain wax esters ([ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED]; Charters et al. 1995...

A Process for the Preparation of Food-Grade Rice Bran Wax and the...

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......major and 9 minor types of saturated wax esters. The major and minor peaks contained C^sub 44^-C^sub 64^ and C^sub 45^-C^sub 59^ wax esters, respectively. Rice bran wax was mainly...respectively. The alcohol portion of the wax esters also contained small amounts of branched...

CER4 Encodes an Alcohol-Forming Fatty Acyl-Coenzyme A Reductase Involved...

Plant Physiology;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mutants exhibit major decreases in stem primary alcohols and wax esters, and slightly elevated levels of aldehydes, alkanes, secondary...Schneider-Belhaddad and Kolattukudy, 2000), or into primary alcohols and wax esters via an acyl-reduction pathway (Kunst and Samuels, 2003). Even...

Regulation of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase Expression

Lipids;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the major monounsaturated FA of membrane phospholipids, TG, wax esters, cholesterol esters, and alkyldiacylglycerol. Several SCD...of lipids, including phospholipids, TG, cholesteryl esters, wax esters, and alkyldiacylglycerols (7-10). Apart from being components...

Technology brochure provides updates on additives. (Product...

National Petroleum News;  February 1, 2002 ;     80 words ......inform customers of the unsurpassed benefits of LUBEGARD's unique synthetic Liquid Wax Ester (LXE[R]) technology. The brochure describes why LUBEGARD[R]'s Liquid Wax Ester technology is unique. It also details the different chemicals used in other off-the-s...

Purification and Identification of Rice Bran Oil Fatty Acid Steryl and Wax...

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT: Fatty acid steryl esters (FASE) and wax esters (WE) of rice bran oil (RBO) have potential applications...GC-MS, phytosterol, rice bran oil, Soxhlet extraction, TLC, wax ester. FA steryl esters (FASE) and wax esters (WE) have wide applications in cosmetic, nutraceutical...

Malaysian Inventors Develop Wax Ester Production Process

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 25, 2006 ;     278 words ......Baru Bangi, Malaysia, have developed a process for producing wax ester from dihydroxy fatty acid. According to the U.S. Patent &...Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process for producing wax ester comprising of esterifying dihydroxy fatty acid preferably dihydroxystearic...

Policosanol Contents and Composition of Grain Sorghum Kernels and Dried...

Cereal Chemistry;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......policosanols, 23% aldehydes, 6.4% acids, and 17% wax esters/steryl esters. Composition of policosanols...30-carbon compounds. Only a small amount of wax esters, a traditional wax component, was contained...an HPLC method for the separation of wax esters and steryl esters in human ...

Cytosolic Triacylglycerol Biosynthetic Pathway in Oilseeds. Molecular...

Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......identity with the bacterial bifunctional wax ester/ DGAT. To differentiate the unrelated...resulted in the formation of labeled TAG and wax ester from [^sup 14^C]acetate. The recombinant...showed high levels of DGAT activity but no wax ester synthase activity. TAGs were localized...

Science spurs commercial possibilities: New Zealand's native muttonbird,...

NZ Business;  November 1, 2002 ;     609 words ......Early analysis shows the oil contains high levels of wax ester which is used in high-end cosmetic products. It is also high in Omega 3 fatty acids. It provides a unique source of wax ester, which has few commercial sources -- there is nothing...