sphingosine in English

noun
1
a basic compound that is a constituent of a number of substances important in the metabolism of nerve cells, especially sphingomyelins.
Sphingolipids are composed of a backbone of sphingosine which is derived itself from glycerol.

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1. Tetralin analogs having sphingosine 1-phosphate agonist activity

2. 1a,b), whereas Axoplasms perfused with d-sphingosine, the sphingoid base of psychosine (Fig

3. Dehydrosphingosine is then reduced by NADPH to dihydrosphingosine (sphinganine), and finally oxidized by FAD to sphingosine.

4. New sphingolipids with a previously unreported 9-methyl-C20-sphingosine moiety from a marine Algous endophytic fungus Aspergillus niger EN-13

5. Fibroblasts treated with Bradykinin produce a rapid and important increase in ceramide which is followed by a transient rise in sphingosine content.

6. A method of preparing a substituted derivative of sphingosine comprising the steps of reducing serine methyl ester by a hydride reagent to form an aldehyde or aldehyde derivative, adding acetylide anions to the aldehyde to form propargyl alcohol, inverting the propargyl alcohol by S¿N?