Sphingolipid and Glycosphingolipid Metabolic Pathways in the Era of Sphingolipidomics

Overview

Journal Chem Rev

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2011 Sep 28

PMID 21942574

Citations 334

Authors

Alfred H Merrill Jr

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