Function and Biosynthesis of Lipids

product pool" of gangliosides.- Effects of brain gangliosides on reinnervation of fast-twitch rat skeletal muscle.- Studies on the functions of gangliosides in the central nervous system.- The biosynthesis of gangliosides and sialoglycoproteins in bovine retina.- Possible presence of psychosine in brain.- III. Lipids in Neural Tissue.- (A) Biosynthesis and turnover.- Transformations of the polyunsaturated fatty acids in the brain.- The significance of base-exchange reactions in lipid metabolism.- Metabolism of phosphatidylcholine in the central nervous system.- Metabolic studies on ethanolamine phosphoglycerides in neuronal and glial cells.- Metabolic relation between phosphatidic acids, CDP-diglycerides, and phosphoinositides.- Neobiosynthesis of phosphatidylinositol and of other glycerolipids in the entire cattle retina.- Phosphatidate, phosphatidylinositol, diacylglycerols, and free fatty acids in the brain following electroshock, anoxia, or ischemia.- Acyl groups, molecular species, and labeling by 14C-glycerol and 3H-arachidonic acid of vertebrate retina glycerolipids.- (B) Functions.- Effect of phospholipid liposomes on the regulation of cerebral metabolism.- Metabolism of phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylinositol in relation to transmitter release from synaptosomes.- Metabolism and role of phosphatidylinositol in acetylcholine-stimulated membrane function.- The possible involvement of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the mechanism of stimulus-response coupling at receptors which control cell-surface calcium gates.- The biosynthesis ofprostaglandins and thromboxanes by nervous tissue.- The relationship between cholinergic proteolipid and proteodetergent in Torpedo electroplax membranes.- Effects of divalent cations, K+, and X-537A on glycerolipid metabolism in the cattle retina.- Effects of temperature, ionic environment, and light flashes on the glycerolipid neosynthesis in the toad retina.- Muscarinic cholinergic stimulation of phosphatidylinositol turnover in the CNS.- Selective lipid alterations during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis-An interpretation of the changes.- IV. Essential Fatty Acids in Nutrition.- Essential fatty acids in human nutrition.- Essential fatty acids: what level in the diet is most desirable?.- The relationship between membrane fatty acids and the development of the rat retina.- Dietary essential fatty acids, brain polyunsaturated fatty acids, and prostaglandin biosynthesis.- Essential fatty acids in testes.- Membrane structure and function with different lipid-supplemented diets.- Effect of thyroxine on ?6 and ?9 desaturation activity.- Biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids from the linoleic acid family in cultured cells.