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The Carbohydrate of Connective Tissue

Nature volume 173, pages 996–997 (1954)Cite this article

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IN a recent paper1 on the mucopolysaccharides of bovine cornea, Meyer, Linker, Davidson and Weissmann conclude that “keratosulphate is the only sulphated polysaccharide of animal origin which does not contain a uronic acid as one of its main constituents”, and they showed that it contained N-acetylglucosamine and galactose in equimolecular proportions and formed about half the total polysaccharide present.

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CONSDEN, R., BIRD, R. The Carbohydrate of Connective Tissue. Nature 173, 996–997 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173996a0

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