Transcript profiling and lipidomic analysis of ceramide subspecies in mouse embryonic stem cells and embryoid bodies

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 480-489

  Park, Hyejung ^a   Haynes, Christopher A ^a   Nairn, Alison V ^b   Kulik, Michael ^b   Dalton, Stephen ^b   Moremen, Kelley ^b   Merrill, Alfred H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramide synthase; Differentiation; Embryoid body; Embryonic stem cell; Fatty acyl CoA elongase; Sphingolipid

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; CERAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDOMICS; LIPOGENESIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSPECIES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77950612993     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M000984     Document Type: Article

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