Year 2008

• Chemical composition of lipids isolated from selected organs and tissues of the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)

  Publication

  • K. Zalewski
  • D. Martysiak-Żurowska
  • A. Stołyhwo
  • M. Iwaniuk
  • B. Nitkiewicz
  • M. Majdan
  • P. Socha

  - POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Year 2008

  Our paper presents a qualitative analysis of particular lipid classes (phospholipids, triacylglycerols, cholesterol, free fatty acids) isolated from the tissues of raccoon dogs harvested in northeastern Poland. In all examined tissues (except for the liver) the dominant group of lipids were triacylglycerols. The amounts of lipids representing the other classes depended on the kind of tissue from which the fat was isolated. The...

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Year 2007

• Characterization of fatty acid composition in Eurasian badger (Meles meles)

  Publication

  • K. Zalewski
  • D. Martysiak-Żurowska
  • M. Iwaniuk
  • B. Nitkiewicz
  • A. Stołyhwo

  - POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Year 2007

  Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs, LA and ALA) are not synthesized in mammals in the absence of their essential fatty acid precursors. However, hibernating animals and animals sleeping through the winter need sufficiently high amounts of these acids. The Eurasian badger does not hibernate, but sleeps over winter. In the autumn the body weight of adult badgers increases even twofold, since they put on fat before the winter. Fat...

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