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Overview of how N32 and N34 elovanoids sustain sight by protecting retinal pigment epithelial cells and photoreceptors

The essential fatty acid DHA (22:6, omega-3 or n-3) is enriched in and required for the membrane biogenesis and function of photoreceptor cells (PRCs), synapses, mitochondria, etc. of the CNS. PRC DHA becomes an acyl chain at the sn-2 of phosphatidylcholine, amounting to more than 50% of the PRC out...

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Autor principal: Bazan, Nicolas G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8058566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33662383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.TR120001137