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Interaction between humic substances from a Pampasic pond and carbohydrates was studied. Determinations were performed by gel chromatography using radiolabeled glucose. The results showed that upon lowering the pH the interaction decreases in relation to the steric arrangement that causes the diminution of the accessibility of the available sites. Results of displacement experiments carried out by addition of unlabeled glucose, galactose, saccharose and starch, confirmed that the interaction occurs mainly through labile non specific bonds and is, to a certain degree, independent of the carbohydrate molecular weight involved.
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Conzonno, V.H., Fernández Cirelli, A. Interaction between humic substances and carbohydrates in a Pampasic pond (Argentina). Hydrobiologia 379, 169–174 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003471618831
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