Significant utilization of dietary arachidonic acid is for brain adrenic acid in baboon neonates

Dietary arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) utilization in-vivo for carbon recycling into de-novo lipogenesis and conversion to n-6 long chain polyunsaturates was investigated in baboon neonates using [U-13C]20:4n-6. Neonates consuming a formula typical of human milk received a single oral dose of [13C]arach...

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Main Authors: Vasuki Wijendran, Peter Lawrence, Guan-Yeu Diau, G. Boehm, P.W. Nathanielsz, J.T. Brenna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2002-05-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520301188