Keratan Sulfate
"Keratan Sulfate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A sulfated mucopolysaccharide initially isolated from bovine cornea. At least two types are known. Type I, found mostly in the cornea, contains D-galactose and D-glucosamine-6-O-sulfate as the repeating unit; type II, found in skeletal tissues, contains D-galactose and D-galactosamine-6-O-sulfate as the repeating unit.
| Descriptor ID |
D007632
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D09.698.373.550
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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