Carbohydrates of neural cell glycoproteins : structure, biosynthesis, and function / Kiyohiko Angata and Minoru Fukuda -- Polysialic acid in adult brain plasticity / Abderrahman El Maarouf and Urs Rutishauser -- Biosynthesis and function of HNK-1 glycans / Firoze B. Jungalwala -- Brain glycolipids : insights from genetic modifications of biosynthetic enzymes / Ronald L. Schnaar -- Synthesis and function of glycosphingolipids / Koichi Furukawa -- Sialic acids in gangliosides : origin and function / Guido Kohla and Roland Shauer -- Deficient glycoprotein glycosylation in humans and mice / Harry Schachter -- Lysosomal glycosphingolipid storage diseases / Thomas Kolter and Konrad Sandhoff
Summary
Carbohydrates play a major role in brain function. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in understanding their structure and function within the nervous system. This book presents a state of the art account of this rapidly expanding field
