Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a sphinx: or hawkmoth; sphingine or sphingiform.
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- noun chemistry any of a class of long-chain
aliphatic amino alcohols
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In normal tissues free sphingoid bases (essentially sphingosine and sphinganine) are only present in minute amounts, similar to GM2 and GM3 gangliosides in the brain.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Cristin D. Davidson et al. 2009
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Analysis of free sphingoid bases was carried out by high-performance liquid chromatography as described by Rodriguez-Lafrasse et al. [25] using eicosasphinganin as an internal standard.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Cristin D. Davidson et al. 2009
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