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Chemical, physical and biological properties of alginates and their biomedical implications

2011-03-01

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Alginates are binary, linear copolymers of (1Â âÂ 4) linked Ã-d-mannuronic acid (M) and Î±-l-guluronic acid (G) residues of widely different composition and sequence. The monomers do not occur randomly but rather in a block-like fashion, where the G-blocks are responsible for the specific ion binding and hence also the gelling properties of alginates. Alginates have for decades been used as medical devices in v...

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Literature Corpus work: 83daba6b-8db0-510a-a09e-2671e7412d9e
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2009.10.007

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