Definitions
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- noun A carbohydrate that consists of a relatively small number of monosaccharides.
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- noun biochemistry a
polysaccharide of lowmolecular weight , being apolymer of between three and sevenmonosaccharide units
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- noun any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
Etymologies
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Examples
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Readers are advised to find one that contains 'oligosaccharide' which, as someone who's baked professionally for a few decades, had no idea what that was.
David Lebovitz David 2010
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She writes: "Mild-acid hydrolytic de-polymerization of carageenan affords poligeenan, a mixture of lower molecular weight polysaccharides and oligosaccharide products."
Red Seaweed as HPV/cervical cancer preventative GreenFertility 2006
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Goss PE, Reid CL, Bailey D, Dennis JW (1997) Phase IB clinical trial of the oligosaccharide processing inhibitor swainsonine in patients with advanced malignancies.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael D. L. Suits et al. 2010
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"This type of research has been performed and duplicated many times in the past" quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) LC/MS technology provided researchers a new view of the oligosaccharide (sugar) structures produced in breast milk across stages of lactation among human mothers.
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More subtle roles for α − and β − mannosides are found in the glycans of higher organisms, where oligosaccharide diversity affords cell signaling and recognition events that lead oligosaccharides to play the role of "glycocode"; the language of cellular communication
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael D. L. Suits et al. 2010
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There are thousands of oligosaccharide structures present in human breast milk and we need to determine which are the most effective.
NutraIngredients RSS 2010
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SizeOn also contains a unique, proprietary, patent-pending oligosaccharide called
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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Aronson NN Jr, Halloran BA, Alexyev MF, Amable L, Madura JD, et al. (2003) Family 18 chitinase-oligosaccharide substrate interaction: subsite preference and anomer selectivity of
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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Its sweet flavour comes from the fructo-oligosaccharide also known as inulin.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Brigitte Mars 2010
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Phe261 forms a hydrophobic interaction with the oligosaccharide.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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