The metabolically most active plasma lipid is:
Correct Answer: Free fatty acids
Description: 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 (free fatty acids or FFA) (4%). This latter fraction, the FFA, is metabolically the most active of the plasma lipids.
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