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

Preferred term

Glucosylceramides  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Ceramide, Glucosyl
  • Ceramides, Glucosyl
  • Glucocerebroside
  • Glucocerebrosides
  • Glucosyl Ceramide
  • Glucosylceramide
  • Glucosyl Ceramides

Scope note

  • Cerebrosides which contain as their polar head group a glucose moiety bound in glycosidic linkage to the hydroxyl group of ceramides. Their accumulation in tissue, due to a defect in beta-glucosidase, is the cause of Gaucher's disease.

History note

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

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005963

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