glycosaminoglycan (redirected from Glucosaminoglycan polysulfate)

glycosaminoglycan /gly·cos·ami·no·gly·can/ (gli?kos-ah-me?no-gli´kan) any of a group of high molecular weight linear polysaccharides with various disaccharide repeating units and usually occurring in proteoglycans, including the chondroitin sulfates, dermatan sulfates, heparan sulfate and heparin, keratan sulfates, and hyaluronic acid. Abbreviated GAG.

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gly·cos·a·mi·no·gly·can (glks--mn-glkn)

n.

See mucopolysaccharide.

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glycosaminoglycan,

n See mucopolysaccharide.

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glycosaminoglycan

any of the carbohydrates containing amino sugars occurring in proteoglycans, e.g. hyaluronic acid or chondroitin sulfate. These substances are secreted in very much greater quantities in the urine of achondroplastic dwarf calves than in other urines. This suggests that the disease is an inherited defect of metabolism similar to the mucopolysaccharidoses of humans. See also glycogenosis.

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glycosaminoglycan polysulfate

an antiarthritic compound which affects synovial membrane activity, increasing viscosity of synovial fluid.