Quantifying conversion of linoleic to arachidonic and other n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in unanesthetized rats

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2940-2946

  Gao, Fei ^a   Kiesewetter, Dale ^b   Chang, Lisa ^a   Rapoport, Stanley I ^a   Igarashi, Miki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Kinetics; Liver; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; CARBON 13; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; ICOSATRIENOIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; ESTERIFICATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; LIPID DIET; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; LINOLEIC ACID; LIVER; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 77956859805     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M005595     Document Type: Article

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