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Characteristics of phospholipids in human lung carcinoma

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Human lung carcinoma tissues with histological types of adenocarcinoma, squamous cell and small cell carcinoma were investigated for phospholipids. There were marked differences in the phospholipids between these lung carcinoma and normal lung tissue. A marked decrease in saturated phosphatidylcholine (PC), predominantly the dipalmitoyl species, was noted in the carcinoma, although they still contained 17–20% of the saturated classes. The lung carcinoma contained less phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and lyso-bis-phosphatidic acid and more cardiolipin and phosphatidylinositol (PI) than the normal lung tissue. These alterations observed in the lung carcinoma apppeared to show that they lose the characteristic feature of phospholipids in the lung tissue. The differences in the lipid composition among different cell types of lung carcinoma were also noted. The squamous cell and small cell carcinoma contained more triacylglycerol and relatively higher dienes I (monoenoic-monoenoic) and lower dienes II (saturated-dienoic) of PG, respectively, as compared to adenocarcinoma.

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  1. Third Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical College, 060, Sapporo, Japan

    Mitsushige Nakamura & Tsugutami Onodera

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Sapporo Medical College, 060, Sapporo, Japan

    Toyoaki Akino

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Nakamura, M., Onodera, T. & Akino, T. Characteristics of phospholipids in human lung carcinoma. Lipids 15, 616–623 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534010

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