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SUBMITTER: Arregui M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479150 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200908 1
Lipids are biomolecules present in all living organisms that, apart from their physiological functions, can be involved in different pathologies. One of these pathologies is fat embolism, which has been described histologically in the lung of cetaceans in association with ship strikes and with gas and fat embolic syndrome. To assess pathological lung lipid composition, previous knowledge of healthy lung tissue lipid composition is essential; however, these studies are extremely scarce in cetacea ...[more]