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THE phospholipids were regarded by the older investigators as relatively inert, and for this reason they have been classed among the ‘permanent’ or structural elements of the cell. Experiments with the radioactive isotope, phosphorus-32, have shown, however, that the phospholipids of the brain have a significant phosphorus turnover-rate1,2, and the turnover is greater for cephalin than lecithin.
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TYRRELL, L. A Cephalinase in Nervous Tissue. Nature 166, 310 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166310a0
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