Novel free ceramides as components of the soldier defense gland of the Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus)

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 656-664

  Ohta, Masaya ^a   Matsuura, Fumito ^a   Henderson, Gregg ^b   Laine, Roger A ^c  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry; Osmium tetroxide oxidation; Sphingoid base

Indexed keywords

1,3 DIHYDROXY 2 AMINO 11,14 EICOSADIENE; 1,3 DIHYDROXY 2 AMINO 7,10 HEXADECADIENE; 1,3,9 TRIHYDROXY 2 AMINO 6 TETRADECENE; CERAMIDE DERIVATIVE; CERAMIDE TL 1; CERAMIDE TL 2; CERAMIDE TL 3; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ESTER; HEXACOSANOIC ACID; LIGNOCERIC ACID; TRIMETHYLSILYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOPTERA; LIPID ANALYSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; CERAMIDES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOPTERA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 33947114884     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M600387-JLR200     Document Type: Article

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