KROK 1 2016 – Question 29 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A dry-cleaner’s worker has been found to have hepatic steatosis. This pathology can be caused by disruption of synthesis of the following substance:
- A. Cholic acid
- B. Phosphatidic acid
- C. Urea
- D. Tristearin
- E. Phosphatidylcholine
Hint
Fatty liver develops when triacylglycerols cannot leave the hepatocyte; think which polar lipid component of the exported lipoprotein particles has to be synthesised for that export.
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