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glycoaminoglycan

glycoaminoglycan is the alternative form of glycosaminoglycan.

Meaning of glycosaminoglycan

Noun

glycosaminoglycan (plural glycosaminoglycans)

  1. Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of amino sugars; they are the carbohydrate units of proteoglycans.
    • Subcellular fractionation techniques have indicated that the greatest percentage of these glycosaminoglycans that is not extracted with water is contained within the microsomal fraction (36-60%).1982, Stanislav Reinis, Jerome Goldman, The Chemistry of Behavior: A Molecular Approach to Neuronal Plasticity, page 229

Forms of glycoaminoglycan

pluralglycoaminoglycans

Questions about glycoaminoglycan

What is glycoaminoglycan the alternative form of?
Glycoaminoglycan is the alternative form of glycosaminoglycan.

Words near glycoaminoglycan in the dictionary

  1. glycoallergen
  2. glycoallergens
  3. glycoamidase
  4. glycoamidases
  5. glycoaminidase
  6. glycoaminoglycan
  7. glycoaminoglycans
  8. glycoamylase
  9. glycoamylases
  10. glycoanalysis
  11. glycoanalyst

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