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Michael A. Crawford
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 283
Citations - 11786
Michael A. Crawford is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Docosahexaenoic acid & Polyunsaturated fatty acid. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 281 publications receiving 11220 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael A. Crawford include London Metropolitan University & Makerere University.
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Differential oxidation of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in vivo in the rat.
TL;DR: The oxidation rates of lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic, alpha-linolenic, linoleic, kappa-linorenic, dihomo-gamma-Linolenic and arachidonic acids were studied by use of a radioisotope tracer technique in weanling rats at rest in a metabolism chamber over 24 h.
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FATTY-ACID RATIOS IN FREE-LIVING AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS: Possible Implications for Atheroma
TL;DR: The question arises as to whether the total domestic development of water-rich vegetation is nutritionally detrimental and that a resultant low balance of polyunsaturated to saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids may be related to arterial disease.
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Essential fatty acids and fetal brain growth
TL;DR: The data show that the placenta and fetus are radically modifying the maternal phospholipids so as to achieve the high proportions of the C20 and C22 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the structural lipids of the developing brain.
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Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens.
C. Leigh Broadhurst,Yiqun Wang,Michael A. Crawford,Stephen C. Cunnane,John Parkington,Walter F. Schmidt +5 more
TL;DR: It is predictable from the present evidence that exploitation of this food resource would have provided the advantage in multi-generational brain development which would have made possible the advent of H. sapiens.
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Evidence for the unique function of docosahexaenoic acid during the evolution of the modern hominid brain
Michael A. Crawford,M. Bloom,C. L. Broadhurst,Walter F. Schmidt,Stephen C. Cunnane,Claudio Galli,K. Gehbremeskel,F. Linseisen,James O. Lloyd-Smith,John Parkington +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the evolution of the large human brain depended on a rich source of DHA from the land/water interface and suggests the alternative that the transition from the archaic to modern humans took place at the land-water interface.