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Arachidonic Acid

Known as: 5,8,11,14-Eicosatetraenoic acid, (all-Z)-, Fatty Acid 20:4 n-6, acid arachidonic 
An unsaturated, essential fatty acid. It is found in animal and human fat as well as in the liver, brain, and glandular organs, and is a constituent… 
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Arachidonic-acid-derived eicosanoids: roles in biology and immunopathology.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Lipid rafts are enriched in arachidonic acid and plasmenylethanolamine and their composition is independent of caveolin-1 expression: a quantitative electrospray ionization/mass spectrometric…
Lipid rafts are specialized cholesterol-enriched membrane domains that participate in cellular signaling processes. Caveolae are… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
A novel arachidonic acid-selective cytosolic PLA2 contains a Ca2+-dependent translocation domain with homology to PKC and GAP
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
NMDA receptors activate the arachidonic acid cascade system in striatal neurons
Receptors for excitatory amino-acid transmitters on nerve cells fall into two main categories associated with non-selective… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Lipoxins: novel series of biologically active compounds formed from arachidonic acid in human leukocytes.
Trihydroxytetraenes, a novel series of oxygenated derivatives formed from arachidonic acid in human leukocytes, were recently… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
How is the level of free arachidonic acid controlled in mammalian cells?
Over the last 25 years a considerable research effort has concentrated on the eicosanoids, and great progress has been made in… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
HÆMOSTATIC FUNCTION AND PLATELET POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN ESKIMOS
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Arterial walls generate from prostaglandin endoperoxides a substance (prostaglandin X) which relaxes strips of mesenteric and coeliac ateries and inhibits platelet aggregation.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Prostaglandin endoperoxides. Novel transformations of arachidonic acid in human platelets.
Arachidonic acid incubated with human platelets was converted into three compounds, 12L-hydroxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
THE METABOLISM OF FATTY ACIDS IN THE RAT. VI. ARACHIDONIC ACID.
Goransson, G. The metabolism of fatty acids in the rat. VI. Arachidonic acid. Acta physiol. scand. 1965. 64. 1–5. -H3-labeled… 
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