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Organic Chemicals > Amides > Ceramides
Lipids > Glycolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Ceramides
... > Carbohydrates > Glycoconjugates > Glycolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Ceramides
... > Lipids > Membrane Lipids > Sphingolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Ceramides

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Ceramides  

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  • Ceramide

Note

  • carbohydrate ceramides: index under CEREBROSIDES (one carbohydrate group) or NEUTRAL GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS (more than one carbohydrate group)

Scope note

  • Members of the class of neutral glycosphingolipids. They are the basic units of SPHINGOLIPIDS. They are sphingoids attached via their amino groups to a long chain fatty acyl group. They abnormally accumulate in FABRY DISEASE.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002518

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