Composition of human cerebrospinal fluid cerebroside

A technique was developed to isolate sufficient material for compositional analysis of cerebroside from pooled human cerebrospinal fluid. The carbohydrate moiety was principally galactose. The sphingosine base and fatty acid compositions were found to be similar to that of brain cerebroside. The pre...

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Main Authors: YOSHITAKA NAGAI, JULIAN N. KANFERS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1971-03-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520395237