The lipid compositions of different regions of rat brain during development and aging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 869-875

  Zhang, Yiyi ^a   Appelkvist, Eeva Liisa ^a   Kristensson, Krister ^b   Dallner, Gustav ^a  

^a Clinical Research Center   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aging; cholesterol; dolichol; rat brain; ubiquinone

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CHOLESTEROL; DOLICHOL; UBIQUINONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOLICHOL; LIPID METABOLISM; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0030294860     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(96)00076-0     Document Type: Article

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