Glycolipids Have Been Shown to Play Roles in Certain Disease

question 44

Multiple Choice

Glycolipids have been shown to play roles in certain disease states in humans and other mammals. Which of the situations below illustrate the ways in which this can happen?

• A)malformed glycolipids can cause neurological disease
• B)mice with missing glycolipids had muscular tremors
• C)they are the site at which bacterial toxins like those that cause botulism and cholera first bind cells
• D)they are the site at which the influenza virus first binds a cell
• E)all of these are correct

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Definitions:

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Lesioning

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