131303 | Cerebrosides (Brain)
Total Cerebrosides (Brain, Porcine)
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Cerebrosides (Brain)
Total Cerebrosides (Brain, Porcine)
The total brain cerebrosides appear as a double spot on thin layer chromatography (chloroform/methanol/water, 65:25:4 v/v). The top spot corresponds to ceresine which contain non-hydroxylated fatty acids, and the bottom spot corresponds to phrenosin which contain hydroxylated fatty acids.
This Natural Lipid is a mixture and the structure shown above is only representative of one possible structure present in the product. Refer to chart for average fatty acid distribution.

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Paglia G, Astarita G. Metabolomics and lipidomics using traveling-wave ion mobility mass spectrometry. Nat Protoc. 2017 Apr;12(4):797-813. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.013. Epub 2017 Mar 16. PMID: 28301461.
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