Mitrin

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Mitrin is a chemical compound from the group of polysaccharides that can be used as an artificial anticoagulant . Its name is made up of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the ending after the similar heparin .

Extraction and presentation

Mitrin can be obtained from heparosan .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Severian Dumitriu: Polysaccharides Structural Diversity and Functional Versatility, Second Edition . CRC Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-4200-3082-2 , pp. 812 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. Balagurunathan Kuberan, David L. Beeler, Roger Lawrence, Miroslaw Lech, Robert D. Rosenberg: Rapid Two-Step Synthesis of Mitrin from Heparosan: A Replacement for Heparin. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125, 2003, p. 12424, doi : 10.1021 / ja036737g .