Quantification of anandamide content in animal cells and tissues: The normalization makes the difference

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-2

  Maccarrone, Mauro ^a   Bari, Monica ^b   Finazzi Agrò, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242691505     PISSN: 1476511X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-1-1     Document Type: Article

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