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Lipids > Membrane Lipids > Phospholipids > Sphingomyelins
Lipids > Glycolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Sphingomyelins
... > Carbohydrates > Glycoconjugates > Glycolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Sphingomyelins
... > Lipids > Membrane Lipids > Sphingolipids > Glycosphingolipids > Neutral Glycosphingolipids > Sphingomyelins

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Sphingomyelins  

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Entry terms

  • Sphingomyelin

Scope note

  • A class of sphingolipids found largely in the brain and other nervous tissue. They contain phosphocholine or phosphoethanolamine as their polar head group so therefore are the only sphingolipids classified as PHOSPHOLIPIDS.

History note

  • 66(63); was see under PHOSPHOLIPIDS 1963-65

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013109

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