Electron microscopic visualization of the polysaccharide hyaluronic acid.
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- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 56 (1), 141-147
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.56.1.141
Abstract
A method is described for making individual hyaluronic acid chains visible in the electron microscope, and it should be generally applicable to acidic polysaccharides. The chains of hyaluronic acid isolated from synovial fluid were found to be practically all straight chains and to have a wide distribution of particle size.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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