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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Immunopharmacol. 2008 Jul 1;8(10):1455–1466. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2008.06.003

Table 2.

Monosaccharide composition of Opuntia polysaccharide fractions

Polysaccharide Fraction Galactose (mol %) Galacturonic Acid (mol %) Xylose (mol %) Arabinose (mol %) Rhamnose (mol %)
C-I 34 15 29 10 12
C-II 35 15 25 15 10
C-III 43 19 20 12 6
C-IV 48 18 17 10 6

Monosaccharides were identified and quantified based on TLC analysis of known standards.