Effects of orally administered cytidine
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Ignacio López G.-Coviella; Julian Agut; J.Alfonso Ortiz; Richard J. Wurtman
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Article
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1992
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Cytidine, as cytidine 5'-diphosphate choline (CDP-choline), is important for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine in cell membranes. To investigate whether exogenous CDP-choline could affect brain phospholipid composition, we supplemented the diet of mice with this drug (500 mg/kg/day) for 27 months