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glycosaminoglycans

glycosaminoglycans is the plural 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

Questions about glycosaminoglycans

What is glycosaminoglycans the plural of?
Glycosaminoglycans is the plural of glycosaminoglycan.

Words near glycosaminoglycans in the dictionary

  1. glycosaminidases
  2. glycosamino
  3. glycosaminoglycan
  4. glycosaminoglycanation
  5. glycosaminoglycanations
  6. glycosaminoglycans
  7. glycosaminos
  8. glycosaminotriose
  9. glycosaminotrioses
  10. glycosan
  11. glycosans

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