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Review
. 2010 Oct 15;20(20):5959-68.
doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.08.048. Epub 2010 Aug 13.

Fatty acid amide signaling molecules

Cyrine Ezzili  1 , Katerina Otrubova, Dale L Boger
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Review

Fatty acid amide signaling molecules

Cyrine Ezzili et al. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. .

Abstract

Key studies leading to the discovery and definition of the role of endogenous fatty acid amide signaling molecules are summarized.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Structure of anandamide.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Structure of palmitoyl ethanolamide.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Structure of oleoyl ethanolamide.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Structure of stearoyl ethanolamide.
Figure 5
Figure 5
Structure of linoleoyl ethanolamide.
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Figure 6
Structure of oleamide.
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Figure 7
Additional endogenous fatty acid primary amides.
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Figure 8
Structure of N-arachidonoylglycine.
Figure 9
Figure 9
Structure of N-palmitoylglycine.
Figure 10
Figure 10
Structure of N-oleoylglycine.
Figure 11
Figure 11
Additional N-acyl glycines.
Figure 12
Figure 12
Structure of an N-acyl taurine.
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Figure 13
Structure of arachidonylglycerol.
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Figure 14
Structure of 2-arachidonoyl glyceryl ether.
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Figure 15
Structure of virodhamine.
Figure 16
Figure 16
Structure of arachidonyl dopamine.
Scheme 1
Scheme 1
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