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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2014

Marine medicinal glycomics.

Vitor H Pomin

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Structural elucidation of fucosylated chondroitin sulfates from sea cucumber using FTICR-MS/MS.European journal of mass spectrometry (Chichester, England) · 2018
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  10. Editorial: glycan diversity in fungi, bacteria, and sea organisms.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Vitor H PominProgram of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycomics is an international initiative aimed to understand the structure and function of the glycans from a given type of cell, tissue, organism, kingdom or even environment, as found under certain conditions. Glycomics is one of the latest areas of intense biological research. Glycans of marine sources are unique in terms of structure and function. They differ considerably from those of terrestrial origin. This review discusses the most known marine glycans of potential therapeutic properties. They are chitin, chitosan, and sulfated polysaccharides named glycosaminoglycans, sulfated fucans, and sulfated galactans. Their medical actions are very broad. When certain structural requirements are found, these glycans can exhibit beneficial effects in inflammation, coagulation, thrombosis, cancer growth/metastasis, and vascular biology. Both structure and therapeutic mechanisms of action of these marine glycans are discussed here in straight context with the current glycomic age through a project suggestively named marine medicinal glycomics.

Indexed as

GlycomicsAquatic OrganismsBiological ProductsHumansPolysaccharidesStructure-Activity RelationshipSulfuric Acid EstersBiological ProductsPolysaccharidesSulfuric Acid Esterscarbohydrate-based drug developmentchitinchitosanglycosaminoglycanssulfated fucanssulfated galactans

Identifiers

PMID24524028
PMCPMC3905220

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