Glycosphingolipid functions: Insights from engineered mouse models

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1433, 2003, Pages 879-883

  Proia, Richard L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gangliosides; Glycosphingolipids; Knockout mice

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038100164     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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