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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Aspects Med. 2016 Jul 11;51:104–114. doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2016.07.001

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Common classes of animal glycans found in the extracellular environment of the brain. The glycans are depicted as parts of hypothetical glycoconjugates. The representative sugars are depicted by colored symbols as described in the legend. GalNAc, N-acetylgalactosamine; GlcNAc, N-acetylglucosamine; Gal, galactose; Glc, glucose; Man, mannose; Fuc, fucose; Xyl, xylose; GlcA, glucuronic acid; IdoA, iduronic acid. (Figure modified and reprinted with permission from Chapter 1 from Essentials of Glycobiology, 2nd edition).