By Y. Hirabayashi,Y. Igarashi,A.H. Jr. Merrill

Sphingolipids are primary to the buildings of mobilephone membranes, lipoproteins, and the stratum cornea of the surface. Many complicated sphingolipids, in addition to easier sphingoid bases and derivatives, are hugely bioactive as additional- and intracellular regulators of development, differentiation, migration, survival, senescence, and various mobile responses to emphasize. This ebook stories intriguing new advancements in sphingolipid biology/sphingolipidology that problem our realizing of ways multicellular organisms develop, enhance, functionality, age, and die.

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