Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids covalently bound to corneocytes in the stratum corneum of house sparrows Passer domesticus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1690-1695

  Gu, Yu ^a,c   Muñoz Garcia, Agustí ^a   Brown, Johnie C ^b   Ro, Jennifer ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Applied Biosystems Framingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Covalently bound lipid; Cutaneous water loss; Desert; House sparrows

Indexed keywords

SPHINGOLIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDERMIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; EPIDERMIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OHIO; SAUDI ARABIA; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHINGOLIPIDS; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

AMPHISPIZA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 46949096236     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.017186     Document Type: Article

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