Carrageenan
"Carrageenan" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A water-soluble extractive mixture of sulfated polysaccharides from RED ALGAE. Chief sources are the Irish moss CHONDRUS CRISPUS (Carrageen), and Gigartina stellata. It is used as a stabilizer, for suspending COCOA in chocolate manufacture, and to clarify BEVERAGES.
| Descriptor ID |
D002351
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D09.698.152
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| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carrageenan" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Chandika P, Kim MS, Khan F, Kim YM, Heo SY, Oh GW, Kim NG, Jung WK. Wound healing properties of triple cross-linked poly (vinyl alcohol)/methacrylate kappa-carrageenan/chitooligosaccharide hydrogel. Carbohydr Polym. 2021 Oct 01; 269:118272.