1. Chemical and Physicochemical Properties of Gangliosides
Laura Mauri, Sandro Sonnino, and Alessandro Prinetti
2. Gangliosides of the Nervous System
Robert Ledeen and Gusheng Wu
3. Scattering Techniques and Ganglioside Aggregates: Laser Light, Neutron and X-Ray Scattering
Elena Del Favero, Paola Brocca, and Laura Cantù
4. Gangliosides in the Immune System: Role of Glycosphingolipids and Glycosphingolipid-Enriched Lipid Rafts in Immunological Functions
Kazuhisa Iwabuchi
5. Ganglioside Metabolism and Its Inherited Diseases
Bernadette Breiden and Konrad Sandhoff
6. Gangliosides and Tumors
Reiji Kannagi, Bi-He Cai, Hsiang-Chi Huang, Chia-Chun Chao, and Keiichiro Sakuma
7. Anti-Ganglioside Antibodies in Peripheral Nerve Pathology
Hugh J. Willison
8. Protocols of Glycosyltransferase Assays: Ganglioside Globoside and Lewis-X Intermediate-Lactosylceramide Biosyntheses in Eukeryotic Systems
Subhash Basu, Arun Agarwal, Manju Basu, Rui Ma, and Joseph R. Moskal
9. Mass Spectrometry of Gangliosides
Akemi Suzuki, Minoru Suzuki, Emi Ito, Takahiro Nitta, and Jin-ichi Inokuchi
10. Visualization of Brain Gangliosides Using MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Eiji Sugiyama and Mitsutoshi Setou
11. Immunoelectron Microscopy of Gangliosides
Takuma Tsuji, Akikazu Fujita, and Toyoshi Fujimoto
12. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Gangliosides
Domenico Acquotti, Laura Mauri, and Sandro Sonnino
13. Methods for the Preparation of Anti-Ganglioside Monoclonal Antibodies
Noriyuki Yuasa and Ikuo Kawashima
14. Chemical Synthesis of Gangliosides
Akihiro Imamura and Makoto Kiso
15. Radioactive Gangliosides for Biological Studies
Laura Mauri, Simona Prioni, Maria Grazia Ciampa, and Sandro Sonnino
16. Synthesis of Fluorescent Gangliosides
Günter Schwarzmann
17. Synthesis of Photoactivatable and Paramagnetic Gangliosides
Günter Schwarzmann
18. Methods for Assay of Ganglioside Catabolic Enzymes
Nicoletta Loberto, Giulia Lunghi, Domitilla Schiumarini, Maura Samarani, Elena Chiricozzi, and Massimo Aureli
19. Pharmacological Modulation of Glycosphingolipid Metabolism
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