plasmalogenn.

1925 Chem. Abstr. 19 1155 Throughout the protoplasm of animal tissues there is to be found, very widely disseminated, a substance of lipoid character, insol[uble] in water but sol[uble] in org[anic] solvents and extractable by alc[ohol], termed plasmalogen. When subjected to acids..this substance is split into undetd. components termed plasmal.

1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. ix. 211 Exposure of tissues to formalin for more than 6 hours would hydrolyse plasmalogen to plasmal, but that further exposure would destroy all the liberated plasmal.

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. x. 5/1 The plasmalogens have an unsaturated ether group, rather than an ester group, on the α position [of the glycerol molecule]. Those of ethanolamine and choline form a big proportion of the phospholipids of brain and heart.

1993 Analyt. Biochem. 213 140/2 Plasmalogens..are phospholipids with an alk-1-enyl (vinyl ether) bond in the sn-1 position and comprise a major fraction of the phospholipid constituents of the mammalian sarcolemma.

1939 Chem. Abstr. 33 8635 This fraction contg. plasmalogenic acid (I) increases with the time of alk[aline] hydrolysis.

1991 Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics 286 346/2 Specific protein—lipid interactions exist, favoring the association of plasmalogenic aminophospholipids with the calcium pump protein.