Differentiation-related changes in lipid classes with long-chain and very long-chain polyenoic fatty acids in rat spermatogenic cell

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2909-2921

  Oresti, Gerardo M ^a   Reyes, Juan G ^b   Luquez, Jessica M ^a   Osses, Nelson ^b   Furland, Natalia E ^a   Aveldaño, Marta I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Ceramides; Elongases; Glycerophospholipids; Pachytene spermatocytes; Residual bodies; Spermatids; Sphingomyelins; Triacylglycerols; Very long chain fatty acids

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; CHOLESTEROL; ENZYME; FATTY ACID ELONGASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PLASMALOGEN; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SPHINGOMYELIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; VERY LONG CHAIN POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERAMIDES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPHINGOMYELINS;

EID: 77956816358     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M006429     Document Type: Article

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