Definition of "gangliosides" [gangliosides]

• Plural form of ganglioside. (noun)

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• "Dr. Philip Livingston and colleagues at MSKCC who have developed cancer vaccines against gangliosides and other carbohydrate antigens that are the most extensively expressed antigenic targets on the cell surface of certain cancers."
• "Then, as nerve cells become distended with gangliosides, a relentless deterioration of mental and physical abilities occurs."
• "Treatment with gangliosides reversed the lysosomal disruption, which suggests that gangliosides protect against the lysosomal damage of a-synuclein accumulation."