“…PA stimulates superoxide generation in neutrophils (Rossi et al, 1990;Bauldry et al, 1991), and increases the activities of cytosolic protein kinase(s) (Bocckino et al, 1991), protein kinase C-z (Limotola et al, 1994), phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate kinase (Moritz et al, 1992), andPLC-g (Jones andCarpenter, 1993). Exogenous PA and lyso-PA inhibit adenylate cyclase (Murayama and Ui, 1987;van Corven et al, 1989;Go mez-MunÄ oz et al, 1994) and increase arachidonate concentrations (Moolenaar, 1995), tyrosine kinase activities (Moolenaar, 1995) and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activities in a variety of cells (Howe and Marshall, 1993;Moolenaar, 1995;Go mezMunÄ oz et al, 1995). Exogenous PA and lyso-PA also activate PLD Moolenaar, 1995) such that external PA is able to generate intracellular PA.…”