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eicosapentaenoic acid
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eicosapentaenoic acid /ei·co·sa·pen·ta·eno·ic ac·id/ (EPA) (i-ko″sah-pen″tah-e-no´ik) an omega-3, polyunsaturated, 20-carbon fatty acid found almost exclusively in fish and marine animal oils.
ei·co·sa·pen·ta·e·no·ic acid (k-s-pnt--nk)
n. Abbr. EPA
An omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils.
eicosapentaenoic acid
[ī·kō′sə·pen′tə·ē·nō′ik]
a 20-carbon fatty acid found almost exclusively in fish and marine animal oils.
eicosapentaenoic acid
a 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acid with five double bonds; a precursor of 1, 2 and 3 series prostaglandins.


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He stated the need to correct the metabolic abnormalities as well as providing nutrients and presented data from a prospective study to show a dose-dependent attenuation of weight loss and simultaneous gain in lean body mass in advanced pancreatic cancer patients given eicosapentanoic acid in a high protein, high energy supplement called Prosure (Abbott Australasia Pty Ltd).
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However, he and his colleagues have recently shown that, given a choice between the two fatty acids, enzymes in mammalian cells preferentially metabolize the eicosapentanoic acid in fish oils.
Fish oil slows some developing cancers by Raloff, J. / Science News
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