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glycosoaminoglycan

glycosoaminoglycan 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 glycosoaminoglycan

pluralglycosoaminoglycans

Questions about glycosoaminoglycan

What is glycosoaminoglycan the alternative form of?
Glycosoaminoglycan is the alternative form of glycosaminoglycan.

Words near glycosoaminoglycan in the dictionary

  1. glycosinolic acid
  2. glycosis
  3. glycosite
  4. glycosites
  5. glycoslated
  6. glycosoaminoglycan
  7. glycosoaminoglycans
  8. glycosomal
  9. glycosome
  10. glycosomes
  11. glycosometer

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