Metabolism of essential fatty acids by human epidermal enzyme preparations: evidence of chain elongation.
The present studies were undertaken in order to delineate the source of human epidermal arachidonic acid, 20:4(n-6). Epidermal microsomal preparations from normal (N) and diseased epidermis (clinically uninvolved (PU) and involved psoriatic (PI) epidermis) were incubated in vitro with either [14C]18...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
1990-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002222752038771X |