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1. Chemical and Physicochemical Properties of Gangliosides             Laura Mauri, Sandro Sonnino, and Alessandro Prinetti   2. Gangliosides of the Nervous System             Robert Ledeen and Gusheng Wu   3. Scattering Techniques and Ganglioside Aggregates: Laser Light, Neutron and X-Ray Scattering             Elena Del Favero, Paola Brocca, and Laura Cantù   4. Gangliosides in the Immune System: Role of Glycosphingolipids and Glycosphingolipid-Enriched Lipid Rafts in Immunological Functions             Kazuhisa Iwabuchi   5. Ganglioside Metabolism and Its Inherited Diseases             Bernadette Breiden and Konrad Sandhoff   6. Gangliosides and Tumors             Reiji Kannagi, Bi-He Cai, Hsiang-Chi Huang, Chia-Chun Chao, and Keiichiro Sakuma   7. Anti-Ganglioside Antibodies in Peripheral Nerve Pathology             Hugh J. Willison   8. Protocols of Glycosyltransferase Assays: Ganglioside Globoside and Lewis-X Intermediate-Lactosylceramide Biosyntheses in Eukeryotic Systems             Subhash Basu, Arun Agarwal, Manju Basu, Rui Ma, and Joseph R. Moskal   9. Mass Spectrometry of Gangliosides             Akemi Suzuki, Minoru Suzuki, Emi Ito, Takahiro Nitta, and Jin-ichi Inokuchi   10. Visualization of Brain Gangliosides Using MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry             Eiji Sugiyama and Mitsutoshi Setou   11. Immunoelectron Microscopy of Gangliosides             Takuma Tsuji, Akikazu Fujita, and Toyoshi Fujimoto   12. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Gangliosides             Domenico Acquotti, Laura Mauri, and Sandro Sonnino   13. Methods for the Preparation of Anti-Ganglioside Monoclonal Antibodies             Noriyuki Yuasa and Ikuo Kawashima   14. Chemical Synthesis of Gangliosides             Akihiro Imamura and Makoto Kiso   15. Radioactive Gangliosides for Biological Studies             Laura Mauri, Simona Prioni, Maria Grazia Ciampa, and Sandro Sonnino   16. Synthesis of Fluorescent Gangliosides             Günter Schwarzmann   17. Synthesis of Photoactivatable and Paramagnetic Gangliosides             Günter Schwarzmann   18. Methods for Assay of Ganglioside Catabolic Enzymes             Nicoletta Loberto, Giulia Lunghi, Domitilla Schiumarini, Maura Samarani, Elena Chiricozzi, and Massimo Aureli   19. Pharmacological Modulation of Glycosphingolipid Metabolism             Jin-ichi Inokuchi, Takashi Ode, and Miki Hara-Yokoyama   20. Molecular Dynamics of Gangliosides             Takumi Yamaguchi and Koichi Kato   21. Determination of Glycolipid Ligands of Carbohydrate-Binding Proteins Directly on Thin Layer Chromatograms             John L. Magnani   22. Identification of KDN-Gangliosides             Ken Kitajima   23. Glycoreplica Peptides             Teruhiko Matsubara, Toshinori Sato, and Takao Taki