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

Preferred term

Trihexosylceramides  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Ceramides, Trihexosyl
  • Ceramide Trihexosides
  • Trihexosides, Ceramide
  • Trihexosyl Ceramides

Note

  • /biosyn /physiol permitted

Scope note

  • Glycosphingolipids which contain as their polar head group a trisaccharide (galactose-galactose-glucose) moiety bound in glycosidic linkage to the hydroxyl group of ceramide. Their accumulation in tissue, due to a defect in ceramide trihexosidase, is the cause of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum (FABRY DISEASE).

History note

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

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014281

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