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R. Sankaran
Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Anaikatty PO, Coimbatore 641 108, India
Received 19 January 1999; revised 18 June 1999; accepted 22 June 2000. Available online 12 December 2000.
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Occurrence of a non-sulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's nest).
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Nakagawa H, Hama Y, Sumi T, Li SC, Maskos K, Kalayanamitra K, Mizumoto S, Sugahara K, Li YT. Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112; Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan. Despite their wide occurrence, proteoglycans (PGs) have never been isolated from […]
Swiftlet
.arikah.ne Description The birds called Swiftlets or Cave Swiftlets are contained within the four genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia. They form the Collocaliini tribe within the swift family Apodidae. The group contains around thirty species mostly confined to southern Asia, south Pacific islands, and northeastern Australia, all within the tropical and subtropical regions. They […]
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Edible bird nest, also known as swiftlet nest, is made by certain species of the swiftlet family. The nest sometimes was known as Swiftlet nest. During breeding season, the male swiftlet construct their nest with glutinous strands of starched like saliva produced by a pair of large, salivary glands under their tongue. The nest looks like a cupped hand or a half cut bowl about 3-5 inches in diameter.
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Swift?
did-you-mean.com For other meanings of the word Swift see Swift (other meanings). The swifts are birds superficially similar to swallows but are completely unrelated to those passerine species; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds. The resemblances between the swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution reflecting […]
Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest)
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Hiroki Nakagawa3,4, Yoichiro Hama4, Toshihisa Sumi4, Su-Chen Li3, Karol Maskos3,7, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra2,5, Shuji Mizumoto5,6, Kazuyuki Sugahara5,6 and Yu-Teh Li1,3
3 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
4 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
5 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
6 Laboratory of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Kita 21-jo, Nishi 11-choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest)
glycob.oxfordjournals.org
Hiroki Nakagawa3,4, Yoichiro Hama4, Toshihisa Sumi4, Su-Chen Li3, Karol Maskos3,7, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra2,5, Shuji Mizumoto5,6, Kazuyuki Sugahara5,6 and Yu-Teh Li1,3
3 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
4 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
5 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
6 Laboratory of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Kita 21-jo, Nishi 11-choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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