[The role of different proteoglycan salts as factors in steric exclusion]

It has been shown that the capacity of Ca2+ salts of hyaluronic acid (HA) and nonaggregating protein-chondroitin-keratan-sulfate (PCKS) to divide in erythrocyte-saline suspension into liquid and cell phases was stronger than the analogous capacity of K+ salts. It was suggested that this is connected with a tendency to form different three-dimensional structures in solutions, which was more expressed in HA and PCKS Ca2+ salts than in K+ salts of these proteoglycans.