1. Foreword: Special Issue on Sphingolipids Dedicated to Professor Guido Tettamanti

   • Sandro Sonnino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 538

2. Mimicking Gangliosides by Design: Mimics of GM1 Headgroup

   • Anna Bernardi
   • Daniela Arosio
   • Sandro Sonnino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 545

3. Biochemical and Structural Information Transduction at the Mesoscopic Level in Biointerfaces Containing Sphingolipids

   • Bruno Maggio
   • Maria L. Fanani
   • Rafael G. Oliveira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 557

4. Cooperative Behavior of Ganglioside Molecules in Model Systems

   • Paola Brocca
   • Laura Cantù
   • Antonio Raudino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 563

5. The Role of Sphingolipids in Neuronal Development: Lessons from Models of Sphingolipid Storage Diseases

   • Rosaria Buccoliero
   • Jacques Bodennec
   • Anthony H. Futerman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 574

6. Cationic Glycosphingolipids in Neuronal Tissues and Their Possible Biological Significance

   • Toshiyuki Hikita
   • Keiko Tadano-Aritomi
   • Senitiroh Hakomori

   OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 581

7. Gangliosides with O-Acetylated Sialic Acids in Tumors of Neuroectodermal Origin

   • Guido Kohla
   • Eggert Stockfleth
   • Roland Schauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 592

8. Carbohydrate Structural Units in Glycosphingolipids as Receptors for Gal and GalNAc Reactive Lectins

   • Albert M. Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 600

9. Ceramide in Apoptosis: A Revisited Role

   • Thierry Levade
   • Sophie Malagarie-Cazenave
   • Olivier Cuvillier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 607

10. Ceramide Regulation of Apoptosis versus Differentiation: A Walk on a Fine Line. Lessons from Neurobiology

    • Chiara Luberto
    • Jacqueline M. Kraveka
    • Yusuf A. Hannun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 609 - 617

11. Lysophospholipid Receptors in the Nervous System

    • Rachelle E. Toman
    • Sarah Spiegel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 627

12. Understanding the Stepwise Synthesis of Glycolipids

    • Hugo J. F. Maccioni
    • Claudio G. Giraudo
    • José Luis Daniotti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 629 - 636

13. Ganglioside Function in Calcium Homeostasis and Signaling

    • Robert W. Ledeen
    • Gusheng Wu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 647

14. Recent Development in Mammalian Sialidase Molecular Biology

    • Eugenio Monti
    • Augusto Preti
    • Giuseppe Borsani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 649 - 663

15. Sphingolipids in Neuroblastoma: Their Role in Drug Resistance Mechanisms

    • Hannie Sietsma
    • Anne Jan Dijkhuis
    • Jan Willem Kok

    OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 674

16. A New Aspect in Glycolipid Biology: Glycosphingolipids as Antigens Recognized by T Lymphocytes

    • G. De Libero
    • A. Donda
    • L. Mori

    OriginalPaper Pages: 675 - 685

17. The Origin of Anti-GM₁ Antibodies in Neuropathies: The “Binding Site Drift” Hypothesis

    • Pablo H. H. Lopez
    • Ricardo D. Lardone
    • Gustavo A. Nores

    OriginalPaper Pages: 687 - 695

18. Complex Gangliosides as Autoantibody Targets at the Neuromuscular Junction in Miller Fisher Syndrome: A Current Perspective

    • Graham M. O'Hanlon
    • Roland W. M. Bullens
    • Hugh J. Willison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 697 - 709

19. Metabolic Formation of Ceramide-1-Phosphate in Cerebellar Granule Cells: Evidence for the Phosphorylation of Ceramide by Different Metabolic Pathways

    • Laura Riboni
    • Rosaria Bassi
    • Paola Viani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 711 - 716

20. Identification of Ceramide Binding Proteins in Neuronal Cells: A Critical Point of View

    • Lutz Elsen
    • Raymund Betz
    • Gerhild van Echten-Deckert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 717 - 727

21. Palmitic Is the Main Fatty Acid Carried by Lipids of Detergent-Resistant Membrane Fractions from Neural and Non-Neural Cells

    • Marina Pitto
    • Marco Parenti
    • Massimo Masserini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 729 - 734

22. CrmA Protects Against Apoptosis and Ceramide Formation in PC12 Cells

    • Raja Goswami
    • John Kilkus
    • Glyn Dawson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 735 - 741

23. Association of Cellular Prion Protein with Gangliosides in Plasma Membrane Microdomains of Neural and Lymphocytic Cells

    • Vincenzo Mattei
    • Tina Garofalo
    • Antonio Pavan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 743 - 749

24. Different Metabolic Effects of Ganglioside GM1 in Brain Synaptosomes and Phagocytic Cells

    • N. F. Avrova
    • I. O. Zakharova
    • I. A. Schepetkin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 751 - 759

25. Influence of Gangliosides on the IL-2– and IL-4–Dependent Cell Proliferation

    • Irina M. Molotkovskaya
    • Roman V. Kholodenko
    • Julian G. Molotkovsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 761 - 770

26. Effects of Ganglioside GM₃ on Phospholipid Turnover of Human Leukemic J6-2 Cells

    • Zhao-Chun Cui
    • Ke-Li Ma
    • Nai-Mei Tang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 771 - 778

27. Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Galactosylceramide Expression Factor-1 (GEF-1)

    • Kiyoshi Ogura
    • Tadashi Tai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 779 - 784

28. Study of Interaction of GM2 Activator Protein with GM2 Using Circular Dichroism and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

    • Daniela Ravasi
    • Massimo Masserini
    • Su-Chen Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 785 - 792

29. Restoration of the GM2 Ganglioside Metabolism in Bone Marrow–Derived Stromal Cells from Tay-Sachs Disease Animal Model

    • S. Martino
    • C. Cavalieri
    • A. Orlacchio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 793 - 800

30. Stable Transfection of GM1 Synthase Gene into GM1-Deficient NG108-15 Cells, CR-72 Cells, Rescues the Responsiveness of TRK-Neurotrophin Receptor to Its Ligand, NGF

    • Tatsuro Mutoh
    • Tadanori Hamano
    • Robert W. Ledeen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 801 - 806

31. Effect of Globotriaosyl Ceramide Fatty Acid α-Hydroxylation on the Binding by Verotoxin 1 and Verotoxin 2

    • Beth Binnington
    • Daniel Lingwood
    • Clifford A. Lingwood

    OriginalPaper Pages: 807 - 813

32. Glycosyltransferases in Different Brain Regions During Chick Embryo Development

    • Angela M. Rizzo
    • Federica Rossi
    • Bruno Berra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 815 - 821

33. Association of GPI-Anchored Protein TAG-1 with Src-Family Kinase Lyn in Lipid Rafts of Cerebellar Granule Cells

    • Kohji Kasahara
    • Kazutada Watanabe
    • Yutaka Sanai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 823 - 829

34. Sphingolipid Metabolism and Caveolin Expression in Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-Expressing GN11 and Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-Secreting GT1-7 Neuronal Cells

    • Simona Prioni
    • Nicoletta Loberto
    • Sandro Sonnino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 831 - 840

35. Modulation of Neuritogenesis by Ganglioside-Specific Sialidase (Neu 3) in Human Neuroblastoma NB-1 Cells

    • Sergey Proshin
    • Kazunori Yamaguchi
    • Taeko Miyagi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 841 - 846

36. Anti-Ganglioside Antibodies Bind with Enhanced Affinity to Gangliosides Containing Very Long Chain Fatty Acids

    • Yumi Tagawa
    • Wouter Laroy
    • Ronald L. Schnaar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 847 - 855

37. In Memoriam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 857 - 859