Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 3 Radioactivity distribution corresponding to ³H-labelled lipids isolated from rat islets cultured with ³H-sulfatide

From: Uptake of the glycosphingolipid sulfatide in the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas in vivo and in isolated islets of Langerhans

	C12:0 sulfatide		C16:0 sulfatide		C24:0 sulfatide
	6 hours	24 hours	6 hours	24 hours	6 hours	24 hours
Lipids	% dpm^a		% dpm^a		% dpm^a
Ceramide	5–8	8–12	5–8	11–20	3–5	4–10
Galactosylceramide	2–4	2–4	1	2–3	1–2	1
Sulfatide	86–89	80–84	88–93	67–81	93–95	84–93
Sphingomyelin	4	5–7	1–3	6–10	1–2	1–4

^a % dpm = dpm for the individual scraped out lipid fractions/dpm applied to the HPTLC-plate, presented as intervals (n = 4).

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