| Literature DB >> 6413803 |
I Alam, J B Smith, M J Silver.
Abstract
High performance liquid chromatography in combination with a radioactivity detector was used to study the metabolism of platelet-activating factor (1-0-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) by washed platelets, platelet-free plasma and platelet-rich plasma obtained from rabbits and humans. Degradation of platelet-activating factor to its 2-lyso derivative was observed in rabbit and human plasma. This degradation of platelet-activating factor in plasma was completely inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate and was partially inhibited by ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid. Washed platelets metabolized platelet-activating factor not only to the 2-lyso compound but also, by reacylation of this lyso intermediate, to an analogue of platelet-activating factor probably containing a long-chain acyl group at the sn-2 position. These transformations occurred, but to a lesser extent, in platelet-rich plasma.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6413803 DOI: 10.1007/BF02535393
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lipids ISSN: 0024-4201 Impact factor: 1.880