Meaning of sialic acid | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of a group of amino carbohydrates that are substituted forms of neuraminic acid and can be components of glycoproteins and mucoproteins.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1987, The FASEB Journal, Volume 1, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, page 231, We have previously shown that the study of O-acetyl esters on the sialic acids is fraught with difficulties.”

“Intralysosomal accumulation of free sialic acid both in vivo and in vitro in Salla disease is due to a defect of the transport mechanism of sialic acid in lysosomal membranes [Renlund et al, 1983b, 1986a, b; Mancini et al 1986].”

“1997, International Journal of Oncology, Volume 10, Issue 4, Lychnia, page 761, Figure 3. Relationship between the disease-free survival rate and sialic acid expression in 100 breast cancer patients following curative surgery.”

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