Figure 8.

Scheme of potential reaction products from an unsaturated PL under inflammatory conditions in vivo. Please note that the term “long-chain” products refers to compounds that have a higher mass in comparison to the native PL while “short-chain” products have a smaller mass. A similar scheme has been suggested recently [97]. Although lysophospholipids (LPLs) might be also considered as “short-chain” products, they are discussed here as a distinct lipid class. This scheme should be regarded as a very crude survey and not all compounds that play a physiological role are actually listed (reprinted from [98] with permission from Elsevier).