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Cerebral microvessels consisting predominantly of capillaries and small arterioles (<30 μm dia.) were isolated from the cerebral cortex and cerebellum of 3-month-old mice. Lipids were extracted from both microvascular and brain parenchymal fractions and the major phospholipid classes (choline phosphoglyceride, ethanolamine phosphoglyceride, inositol phosphoglyceride, serine phosphoglyceride, and sphingomyelin) separated by 2-dimensional TLC. Comparison of mol % determined by phosphate analysis of each phospholipid revealed significant differences in membrane composition of ethanolamine phosphoglyceride, inositol phosphoglyceride, and sphingomyelin between microvascular and parenchymal components of the central nervous system. Moreover, the choline phosphoglyceride/sphingomyelin mol ratio, one of three determinants of membrane fluidity, is significantly lower for microvessel membrane than for membranes of the brain parenchyma.
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Williams, W.M., Reichman, M. & McNeill, T.H. Cerebral microvascular and parenchymal phospholipid composition in the mouse. Neurochem Res 13, 743–747 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00971597
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