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Hyaluronic acid

Hyaluronic acid

(Science: biochemistry) polymer composed of repeating dimeric units of glucuronic acid and N acetyl glucosamine. May be of extremely high molecular weight (up to several million daltons) and forms the core of complex proteoglycan aggregates found in extracellular matrix.


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The importance of hyaluron acid in cartillage

... is a tissue that is resistent to compressing pressure. ---> hyaluronic acid is a proteoglycan that is very hydrophilic and thus attacheswater: the cartillage tissue ...

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by sdekivit
Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:19 pm
 
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The Fiber Disease

... adenosine di-phosphate (ADP), collagen, epinephrine, arachidonic acid, ristocetin, and combinations thereof. 6. The implant of claim 1, wherein ... selected from the group consisting of alginate, cross-linked alginate, hyaluronic acid, collagen gel, fibrin glue, fibrin clot, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), ...

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Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:59 am
 
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