Vitamin E (α-tocopherol) enhances arachidonic acid release in rat heart myoblastic cells through the activation of cytosolic phospholipase A2

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 407, Issue , 1996, Pages 123-129

  Tran, Khai ^a   Lee, Edmund ^a   Wong, Jason ^a   Man, Ricky Y K ^a   Jay, Francis T ^a   Chan, Alvin C ^b   Choy, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROSTACYCLIN; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAMMAL; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CALCIMYCIN; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEART; INDOLES; IONOPHORES; ISOENZYMES; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0030420588     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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