title: Platelet-activating factor: a unique lipid chemical mediator.
abstract: Several different laboratories have provided sufficient information to establish platelet-activating factor, or AGEPC, as one of the most potent lipid chemical mediators known to date and one with a particularly broad spectrum of biological activities. The data presented in this chapter strengthen this generalization and show yet another dramatic biochemical effect of this unusual phosphoglyceride. The mechanism by which AGEPC effects glycogenolysis and vasoconstriction remains the subject of an ongoing investigation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008102:Liver Circulation; D008112:Liver Glycogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010477:Perfusion; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D014661:Vasoconstriction
chemical_list: D008112:Liver Glycogen; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor