**THE COMPLEX WORLD OF POLYSACCHARIDES**

Edited by **Desiree Nedra Karunaratne** 

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2947 Edited by Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

#### **Contributors**

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Zimnitskii, Frank Gu, Stefan Kwiatkowski, Tanya Ivashina, Vladimir Ksenzenko, Maria Josefina Carlucci, María Victoria Busi, Mariana Martin, Diego Gomez-Casati, Prasun Bandyopadhyay, Amit Ghosh, Rosa Eugenia Reyes, Alejandra Aquino Andrade, Victor Rafael Coria Jimenez, Carolina Romo Gonzalez, Maribel Ortiz Herrera, Reckseidler-Zenteno, Vesna Svetlicic, Ranieri Urbani, Paola Sist, Galja Pletikapic, Vera Zutic, Susana Patricia Patricia Miranda-Castro, Eva Guadalupe Guadalupe Lizarraga-Paulin, Roberto D. Lins, Eduardo Franca, Victor Rusu, Thereza Soares, Richard Cunha, Frederico Pontes, Rosa Raybaudi-Massilia, Jonathan Mosqueda-Melgar, Alexander Dushkin, Natalya Nikolaevna Trofimova, Elena Medvedeva, Nadezhda Ivanova, Yuriy Malkov, Vasiliy Babkin, Alireza Alishahi, Verena Poinsot, François Couderc, Máira Regina Rodrigues, Fábio Vieira Lacerda, Edmund M.K. Lui, Paul Charpentier, Chike Azike, Hua Pei, Harm Snippe, Dodi Safari, Rijkers Ger, Patrick Di Martino, Pierre Lembre, Cécile Lorentz, Marina Dello Staffolo, Mona Esawy, Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

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The Complex World of Polysaccharides Edited by Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

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