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- noun organic chemistry The aminodiol 2-amino-1,3-octadecanediol that is a component of the
sphingolipids ; any homologous compound that has other that 18 carbon atoms
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Roff CF, Miller SPF, Rodriguez-Lafrasse C, Vanier MT, et al. (1992) Type C Niemann-Pick disease: a murine model of the lysosomal cholesterol lipidosis accumulates sphingosine and sphinganine in the liver.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Cristin D. Davidson et al. 2009
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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.
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Fig. 7B), as well as of free sphinganine (data not shown), in good accordance to previously published data
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