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THE chondroitin sulphate – protein complex of cartilage was extracted from fresh homogenized bovine nasal septa by 30 per cent potassium chloride and precipitated with absolute alcohol after dialysis against running tap water and addition of potassium acetate; all operations were carried out at 2° C. The final product was analogous in chemical composition to the mucoprotein of Shatton and Schubert1. Solutions of the mucoprotein in phosphate buffer M/15, pH 7.0, were studied by viscometry, sedimentation, light scattering and flow birefringence.
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BERNARDI, G. Size and Shape of Cartilage Mucoprotein. Nature 180, 93–94 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180093b0
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