Gangliosides: Methods and Protocols

Book Overview

1. Chemical and Physicochemical Properties of Gangliosides

Laura Mauri, Sandro Sonnino, and Alessandro Prinetti

2. Gangliosides of the Nervous System

Robert Ledeen and Gusheng Wu

3. Scattering Techniques and Ganglioside Aggregates: Laser Light, Neutron and X-Ray Scattering

Elena Del Favero, Paola Brocca, and Laura Cant?

4. Gangliosides in the Immune System: Role of Glycosphingolipids and Glycosphingolipid-Enriched Lipid Rafts in Immunological Functions

Kazuhisa Iwabuchi

5. Ganglioside Metabolism and Its Inherited Diseases

Bernadette Breiden and Konrad Sandhoff

6. Gangliosides and Tumors

Reiji Kannagi, Bi-He Cai, Hsiang-Chi Huang, Chia-Chun Chao, and Keiichiro Sakuma

7. Anti-Ganglioside Antibodies in Peripheral Nerve Pathology

Hugh J. Willison

8. Protocols of Glycosyltransferase Assays: Ganglioside Globoside and Lewis-X Intermediate-Lactosylceramide Biosyntheses in Eukeryotic Systems

Subhash Basu, Arun Agarwal, Manju Basu, Rui Ma, and Joseph R. Moskal

9. Mass Spectrometry of Gangliosides

Akemi Suzuki, Minoru Suzuki, Emi Ito, Takahiro Nitta, and Jin-ichi Inokuchi

10. Visualization of Brain Gangliosides Using MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Eiji Sugiyama and Mitsutoshi Setou

11. Immunoelectron Microscopy of Gangliosides

Takuma Tsuji, Akikazu Fujita, and Toyoshi Fujimoto

12. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Gangliosides

Domenico Acquotti, Laura Mauri, and Sandro Sonnino

13. Methods for the Preparation of Anti-Ganglioside Monoclonal Antibodies

Noriyuki Yuasa and Ikuo Kawashima

14. Chemical Synthesis of Gangliosides

Akihiro Imamura and Makoto Kiso

15. Radioactive Gangliosides for Biological Studies

Laura Mauri, Simona Prioni, Maria Grazia Ciampa, and Sandro Sonnino

16. Synthesis of Fluorescent Gangliosides

G?nter Schwarzmann

17. Synthesis of Photoactivatable and Paramagnetic Gangliosides

G?nter Schwarzmann

18. Methods for Assay of Ganglioside Catabolic Enzymes

Nicoletta Loberto, Giulia Lunghi, Domitilla Schiumarini, Maura Samarani, Elena Chiricozzi, and Massimo Aureli

19. Pharmacological Modulation of Glycosphingolipid Metabolism

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493985515
• ISBN13: 9781493985517
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"