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Abstract
FATTY ACIDS which have the first unsaturated bond in the sixth position from the omega carbon. A typical American diet tends to contain substantially more omega-6 than OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS.
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- Fatty Acids, Omega 6
- Fatty Acids, Omega-6
- N-6 Fatty Acid
- N-6 Fatty Acids
- Omega-6 Fatty Acid
- Acid, N-6 Fatty
- Acid, Omega-6 Fatty
- Acids, N-6 Fatty
- Acids, Omega-6 Fatty
- Fatty Acid, N-6
- Fatty Acid, Omega-6
- Fatty Acids, N-6
- N 6 Fatty Acid
- N 6 Fatty Acids
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid
- Omega 6 Fatty Acids
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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2004
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- Fatty Acids, Unsaturated (1980-2003)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Omega-6 Fatty Acids. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D043371. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D043371
- Omega-6 Fatty Acids. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%E2%88%926_fatty_acid
- Omega-6 Fatty Acids. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306246