Studies on the Intact Animal

Sphingosine containing hpids are widely distributed throughout all tissues of the animal species studied. The quantitative estimation of cerebrosides and 

In certain disease processes i.e. the lipidosis, additional accumulation of some of these lipids occurs to an abnormal extent. Then too, there are disease processes in which the level of the lipids decrease and a resultant demyelination of axones occurs. These diseases will be discussed in a later section. 

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