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Lewis I. Gidez
Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 1046 1
In this Silver Anniversary Issue of the Journal of Lipid phosphorus or carbohydrate group. The word lipin
Research there are articles that review important recent was proposed as a generic name for fats and fat-like
developments in various areas of lipid research. These substances (lipoids) in 1912 (3). Terms such as phospho-
reviews not only summarize the state of knowledge in lipins, glycolipins, glycophospholipins, and sterins were
1984, but they point the way to new avenues of research. suggested. In that year it also made its first appearance
Other articles in this issue are more retrospective; they in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in volume 13 (4).
call attention to what was known in particular areas of Interestingly, the author of this paper was one of the
lipid research 25 years ago, and summarize the progress coauthors of the paper that advocated the use of lipin.