Lipids are not synonymous with fats. Fats mainly refer to energy-storage lipids such as triacylglycerols, whereas lipids comprise a much broader range of structural classes, including fatty acids, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and sterol lipids. Different lipids participate not only in ...
Lipids in inflammation and immune responses do not merely serve structural roles in membrane assembly and energy storage, but instead constitute a critical regulatory layer spanning the entire course of inflammatory initiation, signal amplification, immune cell differentiation, effector ...