[Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology] Sphingolipids as Signaling and Regulatory Molecules Volume 688 || An Overview of Sphingolipid Metabolism: From Synthesis to Breakdown

✍ Scribed by Gault, Christopher R. (author);Obeid, Lina M. (author);Hannun, Yusuf A. (author)

• Book ID: 120352396
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 547 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1441967419
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6741-1_1

✦ Synopsis

This book attempts to analyze the latest discoveries in sphingolipid biology and how the alteration of their metabolism leads to altered signaling events and to the development of pathobiological disorders, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, diabetes, inflammation and infectious diseases.