Neuroglycobiology : molecular and cellular neurobiology
Schnaar, Ronald LContributor
Rutishauser, UContributor
Fukuda, MinoruContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
Carbohydrates play a major role in brain function. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in understanding their structure and function within the nervous system. This book presents a state of the art account of this rapidly expanding field.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Carbohydrates play a major role in brain function. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in understanding their structure and function within the nervous system. This book presents a state of the art account of this rapidly expanding field.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carbohydrates of neural cell glycoproteins : structure, biosynthesis, and function / Kiyohiko Angata and Minoru Fukuda -- Polysialic acid in adult brain plasticity / Abderrahman El Maarouf and Urs Rutishauser -- Biosynthesis and function of HNK-1 glycans / Firoze B. Jungalwala -- Brain glycolipids : insights from genetic modifications of biosynthetic enzymes / Ronald L. Schnaar -- Synthesis and function of glycosphingolipids / Koichi Furukawa -- Sialic acids in gangliosides : origin and function / Guido Kohla and Roland Shauer -- Deficient glycoprotein glycosylation in humans and mice / Harry Schachter -- Lysosomal glycosphingolipid storage diseases / Thomas Kolter and Konrad Sandhoff.
Glycosylation
Sialic Acids
Glycoconjugates
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Glycosyltransferases
Brain
Neuraminic Acids
Transferases
Carbohydrates
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Central Nervous System
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Organic Chemistry Processes
Sugar Acids
Biochemical Processes
Metabolism
Nervous System
Chemicals and Drugs
Organic Chemistry Phenomena
Metabolic Diseases
Chemical Processes
Amino Sugars
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Enzymes
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Chemical Phenomena
Hydroxy Acids
Anatomy
Enzymes and Coenzymes
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
Acids, Acyclic
Metabolic Phenomena
Biochemical Phenomena
Carboxylic Acids
Phenomena and Processes
Diseases
Organic Chemicals
Neuroscience
Human Anatomy & Physiology
Health & Biological Sciences