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

Preferred term

Galactosylceramides  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Ceramide, Galactosyl
  • Ceramides, Galactosyl
  • Galactocerebrosides
  • Galactosyl Ceramide
  • Galactosylceramide
  • Galactosyl Ceramides

Scope note

  • Cerebrosides which contain as their polar head group a galactose moiety bound in glycosidic linkage to the hydroxyl group of ceramide. Their accumulation in tissue, due to a defect in beta-galactosidase, is the cause of galactosylceramide lipidosis or globoid cell leukodystrophy.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under CEREBROSIDES 1979-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005699

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