Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Lactosylceramides

"Lactosylceramides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Glycosphingolipids which contain as their polar head group a lactose moiety bound in glycosidic linkage to the hydroxyl group of ceramide. Their accumulation in tissue, due to a defect in lactosylceramide beta-galactosidase, is the cause of lactosylceramidosis.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lactosylceramides" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Lactosylceramides" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2014
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.