Membrane docosahexaenoate is supplied to the developing brain and retina by the liver.

Chemistry and metabolism of lipids in the vertebrate retina

1983 • 1,034 citations

Biochemical and functional effects of prenatal and postnatal omega 3 fatty acid deficiency on retina and brain in rhesus monkeys.

1986 • 922 citations

Effects of ischemia and electroconvulsive shock on free fatty acid pool in the brain

1970 • 854 citations

Dietary omega-3 fatty acid deficiency and visual loss in infant rhesus monkeys.

1984 • 653 citations

Docosahexaenoic acid is a strong inhibitor of prostaglandin but not leukotriene biosynthesis.

1983 • 414 citations

A Possible Essential Role for Dietary Linolenic Acid in the Development of the Young Rat

1976 • 367 citations

Dietary requirements and functions of α-linolenic acid in animals

1982 • 362 citations

ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS AND FETAL BRAIN GROWTH

1976 • 319 citations

Incorporation of radioactive polyunsaturated fatty acids into liver and brain of developing rat

1975 • 217 citations

Separation and quantitation of free fatty acids and fatty acid methyl esters by reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography

1983 • 206 citations

Control of polyunsaturated acids in tissue lipids.

1986 • 204 citations

Uptake of oleate by isolated rat adipocytes is mediated by a 40-kDa plasma membrane fatty acid binding protein closely related to that in liver and gut.

1988 • 163 citations

Nutrition During Infancy

1989 • 145 citations

Endogenous fatty acids are covalently and noncovalently bound to interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein in the monkey retina.

1985 • 135 citations

IN VITRO FORMATION OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS BY DESATURATION IN RAT BRAIN: SOME PROPERTIES OF THE ENZYMES IN DEVELOPING BRAIN AND COMPARISONS WITH LIVER¹

1978 • 121 citations

Docosahexaenoic acid (22:6, n-3) is metabolized to lipoxygenase reaction products in the retina

1984 • 107 citations

Supply of polyenoic fatty acids to the mammalian brain: The ease of conversion of the short-chain essential fatty acids to their longer chain polyunsaturated metabolites in liver, brain, placenta and blood

1981 • 95 citations

Differential lipid deacylation during brain ischemia in a homeotherm and a poikilotherm. Content and composition of free fatty acids and triacylglycerols

1975 • 85 citations

Modulation of membrane transport by free fatty acids: inhibition of synaptosomal sodium-dependent amino acid uptake

1983 • 84 citations

THE METABOLISM OF [1‐¹⁴C]ARACHIDONIC ACID IN THE NEUTRAL GLYCERIDES AND PHOSPHOGLYCERIDES OF MOUSE BRAIN¹

1974 • 72 citations

Handbook of neurochemistry

1986 • 56 citations

INTRACRANIAL CONVERSION OF LINOLEIC ACID TO ARACHIDONIC ACID: EVIDENCE FOR LACK OF Δ⁸ DESATURASE IN THE BRAIN

1976 • 47 citations

Long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase from rat brain microsomes. Kinetic studies using [1-14C]docosahexaenoic acid substrate

1984 • 46 citations

Hepatic Metabolism of Dietary Alpha-Linolenic Acid in Suckling Rats, and Its Possible Importance in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Uptake by the Brain

1986 • 43 citations

Displacement into incubation medium by albumin of highly unsaturated retina free fatty acids arising from membrane lipids

1974 • 42 citations

Synthesis of arachidonoyl coenzyme A and docosahexaenoyl coenzyme A in retina

1984 • 35 citations

Developing rod photoreceptors from normal and mutant Rd mouse retinas: Altered fatty acid composition early in development of the mutant

1988 • 33 citations

Synthesis of docosahexaenoyl-, arachidonoyl- and palmitoyl-coenzyme a in ocular tissues

1985 • 28 citations