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spirometo-series

spirometo-series noun: a class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,4)Glcβ(1,3)Galβ-Cer (galactose, glucose, galactose, ceramide).

Noun

spirometo-series

  1. A class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,4)Glcβ(1,3)Galβ-Cer (galactose, glucose, galactose, ceramide)
    • So far, schisto- and spirometo-series glycosphingolipids have been only found in parasitic helminths2002, Bertram O. Fraser-Reid, Kuniaki Tatsuta, Joachim Thiem, Glycoscience: Chemistry and Chemical Biology I–III, →ISBN, page 2197
    • Structural analyses of the neutral glycosphgolipids from plerocercoids of the parasites Spirometra erinacei (Kawakami et al., 2993, 1995, 1996), Spirometra mansonoides (Singh et al., 1987), Diplogonoporus balaenopterae (Kawakami et al., 1997) as well as adult worms and plerocercoids of...2006, Aaron G. Maule, Nikki J. Marks, Parasitic Flatworms: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology and Physiology, →ISBN

Forms of spirometo-series

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Questions about spirometo-series

What does spirometo-series mean?
Spirometo-series means a class of glycosphingolipids containing the sequence Galβ(1,4)Glcβ(1,3)Galβ-Cer (galactose, glucose, galactose, ceramide).
What part of speech is spirometo-series?
Spirometo-series is a noun.

Words near spirometo-series in the dictionary

  1. spirolobous
  2. spiroloculine
  3. spiromesifen
  4. spirometer
  5. spirometers
  6. spirometo-series
  7. spirometre
  8. spirometres
  9. spirometric
  10. spirometrical
  11. spirometrically

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