The role of ceramides in selected brain pathologies: ischemia/hypoxia, Alzheimer disease

 Ceramides, members of the sphingolipids, are produced in the central nervous system by de novo synthesis, sphingomyelin hydrolysis or the so-called salvage pathway. They are engaged in formation of lipid rafts that are essential in regulation and transduction of signals coming to the cell from the...

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Main Authors: Halina Car, Małgorzata Żendzian-Piotrowska, Anna Fiedorowicz, Sławomir Prokopiuk, Anna Sadowska, Krzysztof Kurek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Index Copernicus International S.A. 2012-05-01
Series:Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej
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Online Access:http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=999024