polysaccharide
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He sometimes recommends polysaccharide extract from turkey tail as a supplement for selected patients.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 31, 2024
The process also activates pectin, an acidic polysaccharide present in many fruits that sets the jam into a spreadable gel.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
The research team established that the degradation of the polysaccharide chitin plays a central role for the initial colonisers in particular.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
Other genes worth targeting would be those controlling chitin, the hard polysaccharide that makes up insects’ exoskeleton.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 28, 2023
Each individual polysaccharide which has been studied thus far yields only a single hexose, although the particular hexose obtained varies in different cases.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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