Meanings
plural sialic acids
- countableuncountablebiochemistryAny of a group of amino carbohydrates that are substituted forms of neuraminic acid and can be components of glycoproteins and mucoproteins.
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.
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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].
1987, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Volume 28, page 3831997, 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.
Synonyms: acetylneuraminic acid
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of a group of amino carbohydrates that are substituted forms of neuraminic acid and can be components of glycoproteins and mucoproteins.
Translations
French acide sialique
- acide sialiqueany of a group of amino carbohydrates
German Sialinsäure, Sialsäure
- Sialinsäureany of a group of amino carbohydrates
- Sialsäureany of a group of amino carbohydrates
Italian acido sialico
- acido sialicoany of a group of amino carbohydrates
Spanish ácido siálico
- ácido siálicoany of a group of amino carbohydrates
Swedish sialinsyra
- sialinsyraany of a group of amino carbohydrates
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