“…Later, the activation of P2X7R was directly associated with several cellular pathways, including the following: caspase-1 activation [18] and IL-1β maturation [19]; shedding of membrane proteins [20]; recruitment and activation of protein kinases, such as, the mitogen-activated protein kinase [21], protein kinase C (PKC) [22], Src [23], and glycogen synthase kinase 3 [24]; recruitment and activation of phosphatases [15]; and membrane blebbing via the activity of ROCK [25] and the activation of epithelial membrane proteins [26]. Despite this wide assortment of functions, this review will focus on the ability of P2X7R to modulate lipid pathways through the activation of different enzymes, such as, phospholipase A 2 (PLA2) [27,28], phospholipase C (PLC) [29][30][31], phospholipase D (PLD) [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], and sphingomyelinases [27,36]. Additionally, it will discuss how these enzymes modify arachidonic acid and its analogues [40][41][42][43][44] as well as ceramides [27,45,46].…”