Abstract
The adrenal medulla, which belongs to the autonomic nervous system, contains high amounts of gangliosides.1, 2 Ledeen and co-workers isolated three monosialogangliosides and two disialogangliosides from bovine adrenal medulla and determined their structures as N-acetyl GM3, N-glycolyl GM3, GM1, GDla and GDla containing 1 mole each of N-acetyl- and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Table 1).1,3 Additionally, three disialogangliosides and four trisialogangliosides were recently found in bovine adrenal medulla (Table 1).4, 5
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Abbreviations
- GM3(A):
-
NeuNAc-Gal-Glc-Cer
- GM3(G):
-
NeuNGly-Gal-Glc-Cer
- GD3(A,A):
-
NeuNAc-NeuNAc-Gal-Glc-Cer
- GD3(G,G):
-
NeuNGly-NeuNGly-Gal-Glc-Cer
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Sekine, M., Ariga, T., Miyatake, T. (1984). Adrenal Medulla Gangliosides. In: Ledeen, R.W., Yu, R.K., Rapport, M.M., Suzuki, K. (eds) Ganglioside Structure, Function, and Biomedical Potential. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 174. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1200-0_9
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