Degradation of high-molecular-weight hyaluronan: A rotational viscometry study

Biologia - Section Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 17, 2005, Pages 149-152

  Stankovská, Monika ^a   Šoltés, Ladislav ^a   Vikartovská, Alica ^b   Gemeiner, Peter ^b   Kogan, Grigorij ^b   Bakoš, Dušan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Hyaluronan degradation; Oxidants; Rotational viscometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644613207     PISSN: 13356399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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