"Sphingomyelins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of sphingolipids found largely in the brain and other nervous tissue. They contain phosphocholine or phosphoethanolamine as their polar head group so therefore are the only sphingolipids classified as PHOSPHOLIPIDS.
| Descriptor ID |
D013109
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D09.400.410.420.525.870 D10.390.470.675.870 D10.570.755.893 D10.570.877.360.612.870
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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