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Ganglioside are ubiquitous membrane component in mammalian cells and suggested to play important roles in various cell functions such as cell-cell recognition, differentiation and transmembrane signaling. These compounds are localized in a glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomain on the cell surface and regulated by the glycosphingolipid composition. However, the role that gangliosides play in immune rejection response by xenotransplantation is not yet clearly understood. In this study, differential expression patterens of gangliosides of Micro-Pig solid organs, which are heart, kidney, liver, pancreas and spleen. We examined expression level of high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) showed that all of solid organs contained GM3, GM2, GM1 and GD1a as major gangliosides. Especially, ganglioside GD1b expressed in liver and pancreas, not in heart, kidney and spleen. Also, GT1b expressed in liver, kidney and spleen, not in heart and pancreas. As a results suggest that differential expression patterens of gangliosides of Micro-Pig solid organs are related immune rejection response in xenotransplantation by biomarker.