Several different arachidonoyl amino acid conjugates, including N-arachidonoyl dopamine and N-arachidonoyl-L-serine, have been isolated and characterized from bovine brain. N-lignoceroyl taurine is one of several novel taurine-conjugated fatty acids discovered during mass spectrometry lipidomic analysis of brain and...

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a 40-53 kDa monomeric molecule found only in adult glial cells of the central nervous system (CNS) and represents the major part of the cytoskeleton of astrocytes. Traumatic injury to the adult CNS results in a rapid inflammatory response by the resident astrocytes,...

DL-threo PDMP is a mixture of ceramide analogs that contains two of the four possible stereoisomers of PDMP (Cay-62595): D-threo-(1R,2R)-PDMP and L-threo-(1S,2S)-PDMP. DL-threo-PDMP inhibits glucosylceramide synthase by 33 and 48% in MDCK cell homogenates when used at concentrations of 5 and 10 µM. It reduces the...