Present and perspective medical applications of microbial exopolysaccharides
Microbial exopolysaccharides (EPS) have found outstanding medical applications since the mid-twentieth century, with the first clinical trials on dextran solutions as plasma expanders. Other EPS entered medicine firstly as conventional pharmaceutical excipients (e.g., xanthan - as suspension stabili...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01012/full |