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Definition of Cerebroside

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cerebroside

1. Glycolipid found in brain (11% of dry matter). Sphingosine core with fatty amide or hydroxy fatty amide and a single monosaccharide on the alcohol group (either glucose or galactose). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Cerebroside

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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"On the other hand, both The ultrastructural resemblance of the tubules to beef cerebroside suggests that galactose cerebroside accumulates in these cells, ..."

2. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"... from the tissue by boiling alcohol and are insoluble in cold alcohol, cold and hot ether, and in water and dilute alkalis. The cerebroside termed ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"These investigations do not exclude the possibility that protagon is a loose chemical combination between cerebroside and phosphatide, which like other ..."

4. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"... and the lipoid residue from brain after removal of kephalin and cerebroside, all behaved like kephalin. Cholesterol was found to obey the partition law, ..."

5. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"The oxidized sulphur body was believed by Koch to be a union of sulphuric acid, a cerebroside and a phosphatide as follows: O ..."

6. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"... or cerebroside extracted from the insoluble residue with hot alcohol. ... a substance belonging to the cerebroside group which can be prepared .from the ..."

7. Biological Effects of Power Line Fields Scientific Advisory Panels Final Report by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"One can conclude that cell numbers as judged by DNA content, cell size (DNA/protein ratio) and myelination (cerebroside levels) were unaffected by ..."

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