Macrophage-targeted CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (1-314) transgenic mice

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1437, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-316

  Tang, Wei ^a   Walsh, Annemarie ^b   Tabas, Ira ^a  

^a Anat Cell Biol Coll Phys S ^*  (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase; Macrophage; Phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

3,3' DITHIOBIS(SUCCINIMIDYL PROPIONATE); CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINE; CHOLINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; CYTIDINE; LIPOSOME; OLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; LIPOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHOLINE-PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; TRITIUM;

EID: 0033602389     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(99)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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