Glucosylceramide metabolism is regulated during normal and hormonally stimulated epidermal barrier development in the rat

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 576-584

  Hanley, Karen ^a,c   Jiang, Yan ^a   Holleran, Walter M ^a,c   Elias, Peter M ^a,c   Williams, Mary L ^a,b,c   Feingold, Kenneth R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ceramides; epidermal barrier ontogenesis; glucocerebrosidase; glycosylceramide; stratum corneum; synthase

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLCERAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDERMIS CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; KERATINOCYTE; LAMELLAR BODY; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPIDERMIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HORMONES; INOSITOL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERMEABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0030896582     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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