Enzymatic synthesis of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid receptor ligand, through N-Acylphosphatidylethanolamine pathway in testis: Involvement of Ca2+-dependent transacylase and phosphodiesterase activities

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-117

  Sugiura, Takayuki ^a   Kondo, Sachiko ^a   Sukagawa, Akihiro ^a   Tonegawa, Takashi ^a   Nakane, Shinji ^a   Yamashita, Atsushi ^a   Waku, Keizo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ANANDAMIDE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; ICOSANOID METABOLISM; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TESTIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; CALCIUM; CANNABINOIDS; KINETICS; MALE; MICROSOMES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 0030066244     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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