Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors list
1. The Development of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biology (D. Horton)
2. Carbohydrate Structure Determination by Mass Spectrometry (B. Xie and C.E. Costello)
3. Chemical Synthesis of Complex Carbohydrates (Z. Guo)
4. Enzymatic Synthesis of Oligosaccharides and Conversion to Glycolipids (D.M. Su, H. Eguchi, C. Xia, J. Song, W. Yi, R.L. Woodward and P.G. Wang)
5. Proteoglycans in the Lung (M.S. Ludwig)
6. Proteoglycans of the Intervertebral Disc (P.J. Roughley)
7. Small Leucine Rich-Repeat Proteoglycans of Skin (P.G. Scott)
8. Functional Glycosaminoglycans in the Eye (M. Zako and M. Yoneda)
9. Biological Function of Glycosaminoglycan (M. Roth, E. Papakonstantinou and G. Karakiulakis)
10. Physiological, Pathophysical and Therapeutic Roles of Heparin/Heparan Sulfate (J. Xie, S. Murugesan and R.J. Linhardt)
11. Carbohydrates and Cutaneous Wound Healing (A. Burd and L. Huang)
12. Carbohydrates in Human Milk and Infant Formulas (G. Boehm, B. Stahl, J. Knol and J. Garssen)
13. Role of Cell Surface Carbohydrates in Development and Disease (M.N. Fukuda, T.O. Akama and K. Sugihara)
14. Therapeutic Use of Hyaluronan-Based Derived Products (E.A. Balazs and P.A. Band)
15. Drug Delivery and Medical Applications of Chemically Modified Hyaluronan (L.Z. Avila, D.A. Gianolio, P.A. Konowicz, M. Philbrook, M.R. Santos and R.J. Miller)
16. Carbohydrate Microarrays as Essential Tools of Postgenomic Medicine (X. Zhou, G.T. Carroll, C. Turchi and D. Wang)
17. Carbohydrate Arrays for Basic Science and as Diagnostic Tools (T. Horlacher, J.L. de Paz and P.H. Seeberger)
Subject Index

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Edited by Hari G. Garg, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Mary K. Cowman, Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies; and Charles A. Hales, Pulmonary and Critical Care unit, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA