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Title: What is a Ganglioside? Post by: someone2841 on Sep 28, 2010 I was linked here from yahoo answers. Let's see how you guys do :-p
-- Question From yahoo answers-- ->What is a Ganglioside? ->I would appreciate an answer in plain English. I can't understand the wikipedia article (I'm not a biologist), but I am studying ---psychophysiology and cannot find the definition in the textbook. As much detail would be much appreciated. Title: What is a Ganglioside? Post by: bio_man on Sep 28, 2010 Welcome to the team!
Gangliosides are any group of glycolipids abundant in nerve ganglia. So they are lipids found in the plasma membrane of cells found in the nerve ganglia that have sugar chains bound to them. They are important because they modulate cell signal transduction events. |