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carboxymethylcellulose

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carboxymethylcellulose /car·boxy·meth·yl·cel·lu·lose/ (-meth″il-sel´u-lōs) a substituted cellulose polymer of variable size, used as the sodium or calcium salt as a pharmaceutical suspending agent, tablet excipient, and viscosity-increasing agent; the former is also used as a laxative.
carboxymethylcellulose
[kärbok′semeth′ilsel′ulōs]
a substituted cellulose polymer of variable size. The sodium or calcium salt is used as a pharmaceutical suspending agent, tablet excipient, and viscosity-increasing agent. The sodium salt is also used as a laxative.


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5 mL of overlay medium that contained 3% medium viscosity carboxymethylcellulose prepared in MEM without phenol red with 10% heatinactivated fetal bovine serum, 1% glutamine (2 mmol/L), 100 U penicillin, and 100 [micro]g/mL streptomycin.
5) The compound is made up of calcium hydroxylapatite particles suspended in a carboxymethylcellulose gel.
These treatments involved a high-charge cationic polymer, poly-diallyldimethylammonium chloride (poly-DADMAC) followed by anionic carboxymethylcellulose (CMC).
 
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