| Abstract: | The phospholipid compositions (qualitative and quantitative) are given of a wide range of natural sources — organs (brain, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, pancreas) of two vertebrate animals (ox and pig) and 27 species of marine invertebrates of five types (coelenterates, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, and tunicates). Methods of isolating phosphatidylcholines from six sources — porcine brain and kidneys, a marine ascidian, a mussel, a starfish, and soybean phosphatides — are described and the compositions of the fatty acids of these phosphatidylcholines are given.Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 214–220, March–April, 1987. |
