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Lipidy — obshirnaya gruppa prirodnykh organicheskikh soyedineniy, vklyuchayushchaya zhiry i zhiropodobnyye veshchestva. Oni soderzhatsya vo vsekh zhivykh kletkakh, vliyayut na pronitsayemost' kletok i aktivnost' mnogikh fermentov, uchastvuyut v peredache nervnogo impul'sa, myshechnom sokrashchenii i sozdanii mezhkletochnykh kontaktov. Lipidy takzhe obrazuyut energeticheskiy rezerv organizma, uchastvuyut v sozdanii vodoottalkivayushchikh i termoizolyatsionnykh pokrovov, zashchishchayut organy ot mekhanicheskikh vozdeystviy. K lipidam otnosyatsya nekotoryye zhirorastvorimyye veshchestva, naprimer, terpeny i steriny. Mnogiye lipidy ispol'zuyutsya v pishchevoy promyshlennosti i meditsine.