Sphingolipids With Therapeutic Ends Date: March 6, 2007 Source: Elhuyar Fundazioa Summary: In the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV ...

Sphingolipids have been known for more than 120 years but, up to recently, they were thought to be molecules that simply complied with a structural function, acting, as it were, as the building ...

Using metabolic and transcriptional studies, single molecule analyses and mass spectrometry approaches, the researchers made a surprising discovery: they were able to prove that the protective ...

Scientists from Würzburg and Berlin have created a novel sphingomyelin derivative that allows visualization of sphingomyelin metabolism and sphingomyelinase activity in infection processes. This ...

Ming Chen, Gongshen Han, Charles R. Dietrich, Teresa M. Dunn, Edgar B. Cahoon, The Essential Nature of Sphingolipids in Plants as Revealed by the Functional Identification and Characterization of the ...