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Sphingosine

"Sphingosine" 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.

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An amino alcohol with a long unsaturated hydrocarbon chain. Sphingosine and its derivative sphinganine are the major bases of the sphingolipids in mammals. (Dorland, 28th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sphingosine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sphingosine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2013
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