Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Triheptanoin is a triglyceride that is composed of three seven-carbon fatty acids. These odd-carbon fatty acids are able to provide anaplerotic substrates for the TCA cycle. Triheptanoin is used clinically in humans to treat inherited metabolic diseases such as pyruvate carboxylase deficiency and carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency.
