sialic acid

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sialic acid (countable and uncountable, plural sialic acids)

  1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any 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.
    • 1987, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Volume 28, page 383:
      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].
    • 1997, 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.

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