Proteoglycan

... the function is to 'catch' water in the cartillage. 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 will swell and thus will be resitent to compressing. Also, as you ...

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... of proteinases in body fluids of humans and animals." TACTICS "?superoxide production by the stimulation with opsonized zymosan, proteoglycan cell wall remained reduced. Corresponding to the reduction in superoxide-producing activity, the killing activity also remained reduced. ...

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... Proteins could be fibers, filaments, nanowires? From outer space? article on MS from Medscape: Chronic barium intoxication disrupts sulphated proteoglycan synthesis: a hypothesis for the origins of multiple sclerosis. High level contamination by natural and industrial sources of the alkali ...

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Proteoglycan is a chemical substance.... It is indeed found in high concentration in cartilages... It's like comparing water to the ocean

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