Sphingomyelins
"Sphingomyelins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of sphingolipids found largely in the brain and other nervous tissue. They contain phosphocholine or phosphoethanolamine as their polar head group so therefore are the only sphingolipids classified as PHOSPHOLIPIDS.
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D013109
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D09.400.410.420.525.870 D10.390.470.675.870 D10.570.755.893 D10.570.877.360.612.870
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sphingomyelins" by people in Profiles.
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Yancey PG, de la Llera-Moya M, Swarnakar S, Monzo P, Klein SM, Connelly MA, Johnson WJ, Williams DL, Rothblat GH. High density lipoprotein phospholipid composition is a major determinant of the bi-directional flux and net movement of cellular free cholesterol mediated by scavenger receptor BI. J Biol Chem. 2000 Nov 24; 275(47):36596-604.