Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the factors that affect the metabolism of
lipoproteins. It is now widely accepted that water-insoluble lipids circulate in plasma bound
to specific proteins to yield soluble macromolecular complexes, lipoproteins, which vary in
lipid complement and nature of their protein moiety. Rapid progress in lipid technology has
led to important analytical data on the lipoprotein lipids, although their structural
arrangement in each plasma lipoprotein remains undetermined. It is possible that some …