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A1 FOLCH-PI J, LEES M
T1 STudies on the brain ganglioside strandin in normal brain and in tay-sachs' disease
JF A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
JO A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1959
FD May 1
VO 97
IS 5_PART_II
SP 730
OP 738
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010732012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010732012
AB Since our results bearing directly on TaySachs' disease are few and mainly of a confirmatory nature, it would seem that the best contribution that we can make to this Symposium is to report in some detail our own work on the brain ganglioside, strandin. This will constitute the bulk of the discussion and will be followed by the presentation of the results of the analyses of two brains of patients with Tay-Sachs' disease.Strandin1 was reported originally as a complex lipide which had been isolated from gray matter by three different methods. Its name was chosen because, when recovered from water solutions by drying, strandin was obtained as a residue of long, glistening, birefringent strands. It was readily soluble in water as an undialyzable solute which was homogeneous in the electrophoretic field over a wide pH range. By ultracentrifugation it showed a major component which accounted for 80% of