Phytosphingosine is a sphingoid base, a fundamental building block of more complex

sphingolipid Sphingolipids are a class of lipids containing a backbone of sphingoid bases, which are a set of aliphatic amino alcohols that includes sphingosine. They were discovered in brain extracts in the 1870s and were named after the mythological sp ...

s. It is abundant in plants and fungi and present in animals. Phytosphingosine has also been found to have interesting T-cell related anti-inflammatory properties in models of inflammatory bowel disease.

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