Metabolically the most active of the plasma lipids is
Correct Answer: Free fatty acids
Description: Free fatty acids
Plasma lipids consist of triacylglycerols (16%), phospholipids (30%), cholesterol (14%) and cholesteryl esters (36%), and a much smaller fraction of unesterified long chain fatty acids (4%). This latter fraction, the free fatty acids (FAA), is metabolically the most active of the plasma lipids.
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