glucocerebroside

Glucocerebroside (also called glucosylceramide) is any of the cerebrosides in which the monosaccharide head group is glucose. They occur mostly in nonneuronal tissue and accumulate abnormally in Gaucher disease, where glucocerebrosidase is absent or nonfunctional.

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Pathology

 Gaucher disease is a defect in the degradation of glucocerebroside.

See also

 Lipids