Improved agarose gel electrophoresis method and molecular mass calculation for high molecular mass hyaluronan

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-56

  Cowmana, Mary K ^a   Chen, Cherry C ^a   Pandya, Monika ^a   Yuan, Han ^a   Ramkishun, Dianne ^a   LoBello, Jaclyn ^a   Bhilocha, Shardul ^a   Russell Puleri, Sparkle ^a   Skendaj, Eraldi ^a   Mijovic, Jovan ^a   Jing, Wei ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hyalose   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophoresis; Heat degradation; Hyaluronan; Molecular mass; Molecular weight; Solution viscosity

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR MASS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POLYDISPERSITY; VISCOSITY;

AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENSITOMETRIC SCANNING; HIGH MOLECULAR MASS; HYALURONAN; MOLECULAR MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SOLUTION VISCOSITY; WEIGHT-AVERAGE MOLECULAR MASS;

HYALURONIC ACID;

AGAROSE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITOMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE;

CALIBRATION; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HYALURONIC ACID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 80655148694     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: 10960309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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