No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2008 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does not include a full text component.
In a new study, the group of Johan Auwerx at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences has made the first connection between muscular dystrophy and sphingolipids, a group of bioactive lipids. The study is ...
A team of researchers has linked neuronal activity to the levels of sphingolipids, a type of fat, in brain cells. Furthermore, disruption of sphingolipid metabolism led to significant neuronal damage ...