Sphingolipids || Chemical structure , biogenesis and function

This video talks about sphingolipids .They are a class of lipids containing a backbone of sphingoid bases, a set of aliphatic amino alcohols that includes sphingosine. They were discovered in brain extracts in the 1870s and were named after the mythological sphinx because of their enigmatic nature

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