ABSTRACT
Understanding lipid metabolism is important for both academic and practical purposes: metabolic pathways involving lipids form a large part of the web of intermediary metabolism, and a knowledge of lipid handling is an essential part of understanding the organism as a whole. Equally, defects in lipid metabolism have been associated with a wide range of human diseases, including coronary heart disease (CHD),[1] which remains the single biggest cause of premature death in the developed world.
