Chromatographic Separation of the Plasma Lipids.

By chromatography on a silicic acid column, artificial lipid mixtures and plasma lipids have been separated into fractions composed mainly of the following groups: sterol esters, triglycerides, sterols, fatty acids and phospholipids. By this tech-nic eleostearic acid is found exclusively in the triglyceride fraction after having been fed as the methyl ester.