Merle L. Blank

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• A specific acetylhydrolase for 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (a hypotensive and platelet-activating lipid).

  M.L. Blank;T. Lee;V. Fitzgerald;F. Snyder

  610
  Citations

• Novel quantitative method for determination of molecular species of phospholipids and diglycerides.

  Merle L. Blank;Mitchell Robinson;Veronica Fitzgerald;Fred Snyder

  380
  Citations

• Inactivation of 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine by a plasma acetylhydrolase: higher activities in hypertensive rats.

  Merle L. Blank;Marvin N. Hall;Edgar A. Cress;Fred Snyder

  235
  Citations

• The enzymic synthesis of ethanolamine plasmalogens.

  Fred Snyder;M.L. Blank;Robert L. Wykle

  223
  Citations

• Acylation of lysophospholipids by rabbit alveolar macrophages. Specificities of CoA-dependent and CoA-independent reactions.

  M Robinson;M L Blank;F Snyder

  210
  Citations

• Evidence for a mixed function oxidase in the biosynthesis of ethanolamine plasmalogens from 1-alkyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylethanolamine.

  Robert L. Wykle;M.L. Blank;Boyd Malone;Fred Snyder

  156
  Citations

• An arachidonoyl (polyenoic)-specific phospholipase A2 activity regulates the synthesis of platelet-activating factor in granulocytic HL-60 cells.

  Kazuhiro Suga;Tomio Kawasaki;Merle L. Blank;Fred Snyder

  142
  Citations

• Improved high-performance liquid chromatographic method for isolation of platelet-activating factor from other phospholipids

  M.L. Blank;Fred Snyder

  134
  Citations

• Occurrence and nature of O-alkyl and O-alk-1-enyl moieties of glycerol in lipids of morris transplanted hepatomas and normal rat liver

  Fred Snyder;M.L. Blank;Harold P. Morris

  125
  Citations

• 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (platelet-activating factor) stimulates calcium influx in rabbit platelets

  Ten-ching Lee;Boyd Malone;Merle L. Blank;Fred Snyder

  117
  Citations

• The role of transacylases in the metabolism of arachidonate and platelet activating factor.

  Fred Snyder;Ten-Ching Lee;Merle L. Blank

  115
  Citations

• Meats and fish consumed in the American diet contain substantial amounts of ether-linked phospholipids.

  Merle L. Blank;Edgar A. Cress;Zigrida L. Smith;Fred Snyder

  106
  Citations

• In vivo metabolism of a new class of biologically active phospholipids: 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, a platelet activating-hypotensive phospholipid

  Merle L. Blank;Edgar A. Cress;Thomas Whittle;Fred Snyder

  102
  Citations

• Requirement of cytidine derivatives in the biosynthesis of O-alkyl phospholipids.

  Fred Snyder;M.L. Blank;Boyd Malone

  100
  Citations

• The retention of arachidonic acid in ethanolamine plasmalogens of rat testes during essential fatty acid deficiency.

  M.L. Blank;Robert L. Wykle;Fred Snyder

  97
  Citations

• Quantitative analysis of ether-linked lipids as alkyl- and alk-1-enyl-glycerol benzoates by high-performance liquid chromatography☆☆☆★

  Merle L. Blank;Edgar A. Cress;Ten-Ching Lee;Nelson Stephens

  87
  Citations

• Long chain fatty alcohols in normal and neoplastic tissues.

  M. L. Blank;Fred Snyder

  85
  Citations

• The biosynthesis of plasmalogens from labeled O-alkylglycerols in ehrlich ascites cells

  M.L. Blank;Robert L. Wykle;Claude Piantadosi;Fred Snyder

  83
  Citations

• Substrate specificity in the biocleavage of the O-alkyl bond: 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (a hypotensive and platelet-activating lipid) and its metabolites

  Ten-Ching Lee;Merle L. Blank;Veronica Fitzgerald;Fred Snyder

  81
  Citations

• The quantitative production of aldehydes from O-alk-1-enyl glycerols

  Robert E. Anderson;Ronald D. Garrett;M. L. Blank;Fred Snyder

  79
  Citations