ceramide

British  

/ ˈsɛrəˌmaɪd /

noun

1. any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations

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Example Sentences

Now Sephora sees a new opportunity in Korean skin care, Bojanowski says, and is selling a slew of products from the country, like collagen sheet masks and ceramide face creams.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Ceramide levels are very elevated in kidney injury," says Rebekah Nicholson, PhD, first author on the work, who completed the research as a graduate student in nutrition and integrative physiology at U of U Health and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Arc Institute.

From Science Daily

"They go up quickly after damage to the kidneys, and they go up in relation to the severity of the injury. The worse the kidney injury is, the higher the ceramide levels will be."

From Science Daily

The team nearly eliminated kidney injury in a mouse model by modifying the genetic program that controls ceramide production.

From Science Daily

Adjusting ceramide production, whether genetically or with the drug, kept mitochondria intact and working even under strain.

From Science Daily