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From: BHB3@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Omega-3 fatty acids
Message-ID: <89335.113355BHB3@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 1 Dec 89 16:33:55 GMT
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In article <859@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>, dant@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) says:
>
>Does anyone know the origin of the name "omega-3 fatty acids"?  Somewhere
>I heard that the name derives from the shape of the molecule.  If that's
>so, is the molecule shaped like three omegas or like an omega and a 3?
>
>---
>Dan Tilque      --      dant@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM
>
>"There are no Communists left in China."  -- Chiang Kai-shek, 1939

The omega-3 fatty acids cited in studies are EPA(eicosapentanoic acid) and
DHA(docasahexanoic acid).  EPA is in the 10th edition of the Merck Index.
They are probably both in the brand new 11th edition.

                                                     Brent H. Besler
                                                     Ford Motor Scientific
                                                     Reaserch Lab


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