Includes cutting-edge techniques for the study of gangliosides

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Chemical and Physicochemical Properties of Gangliosides.- Gangliosides of the Nervous System.- Scattering Techniques and Ganglioside Aggregates: Laser Light, Neutron and X-Ray Scattering.- Gangliosides in the Immune System: Role of Glycosphingolipids and Glycosphingolipid-Enriched Lipid Rafts in Immunological Functions.- Ganglioside Metabolism and Its Inherited Diseases.- Gangliosides and Tumors.- Anti-Ganglioside Antibodies in Peripheral Nerve Pathology.- Protocols of Glycosyltransferase Assays: Ganglioside Globoside and Lewis-X Intermediate-Lactosylceramide Biosyntheses in Eukeryotic Systems.- Mass Spectrometry of Gangliosides.- Visualization of Brain Gangliosides Using MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry.- Immunoelectron Microscopy of Gangliosides.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Gangliosides.- Methods for the Preparation of Anti-Ganglioside Monoclonal Antibodies.- Chemical Synthesis of Gangliosides.- Radioactive Gangliosides for Biological Studies.- Synthesis of Fluorescent Gangliosides.- Synthesis of Photoactivatable and Paramagnetic Gangliosides.- Methods for Assay of Ganglioside Catabolic Enzymes.- Pharmacological Modulation of Glycosphingolipid Metabolism.- Molecular Dynamics of Gangliosides.- Determination of Glycolipid Ligands of Carbohydrate-Binding Proteins Directly on Thin Layer Chromatograms.- Identification of KDN-Gangliosides.- Glycoreplica Peptides.