Session V Medium-Chain Triglyceride-Based Fat Emulsions: An Alternative Energy Supply in Stress and Sepsis

* In this review the emulsions are called LCT emulsions, MCT emulsion, MCT/LCT emulsion, or structured lipid emulsion when they furnish, respectively, pure LCT, pure MCT, a mixture of MCT and LCT. or structured lipids. The term MCT-based fat emulsion refers to an emulsion furnishing MCT, alone or not, as physical mixture with LCT or as structured lipids. ABSTRACT. Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTS) and me-dium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) have special physicochemical properties such as small molecular weight, small interfacial tension against water, and for the fatty acids, solubility in biological fluids. As a result the metabolic pathways followed by these fats in an organism are different and simpler, or identical but more rapid, than those followed by long-chain triglycerides (LCTS) and long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs). Con-sequently the MCTs have found numerous applications in ora