This article summarizes our early work with Viswanathan Natarajan in the 1980s at the University of Minnesota's Hormel Institute, when he was at the beginning of his brilliant academic career. At that time most metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis and degradation of phospholipids were well established and known in considerable detail. Hence, it was exciting to discover a novel sequence of biochemical reactions, first in dog heart and later in various other vertebrate cells and tissues that became known as the transacylation-phosphodiesterase pathway of phospholipid metabolism. Because one of the metabolites, N-arachidonoylethanolamine, produced by this reaction sequence, was later found to bind to and activate cannabinoid receptors, investigations of this pathway became part of the rapidly growing field of endocannabinoid research. This is briefly summarized here as well.
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