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Biotech / Medical : NNVC - NanoViricides, Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: drkaz who wrote (9505)	12/21/2017 8:33:32 PM
From: donpat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12873

The one thing that impressed me most was the broad spectrum aspect. That is what I want from NNVC! Never hear a word about it. Now these UIC + guys are actually doing it with another (??) attachment point, not sialic acid. This confuses me. Why are these bloody viruses confusing me!!! How many attachment points are there???? They use -- heparin sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) --. From Google: virology.ws Sialic acids in human health and disease - NCBI - NIH ncbi.nlm.nih.gov by A Varki - 2008 - Cited by 420 - Related articles Jul 6, 2008 - The surfaces of all vertebrate cells are decorated with a dense and complex array of sugarchains, which are mostly attached to proteins and lipids. Most soluble secreted proteins are also similarly decorated with such glycans. Sialic acids are a diverse family of sugar units with a nine-carbon backbone that ... Sialic Acids - Essentials of Glycobiology - NCBI Bookshelf ncbi.nlm.nih.gov by A Varki - ?2009 - Cited by 441 - Related articles The structure, chemistry, and biosynthesis of the compound that they obtained (N-acetyl-neuraminic acid or Neu5Ac, a 9-carbon, acidic a-keto sugar; see Figure 14.1) were elucidated in the 1950s and 1960s by multiple groups. Sialic acid had already been shown to be the cellular receptor for influenza viruses by George ... Sialic acid + sugar search: google.ca Sugar is involved in both attachment points!! I'd use both on my cide to cover the waterfront!