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Spectrophotometric Methods for the Study of Eukaryotic Glycogen Metabolism
Published on: August 19, 2021
Methods for Studying Glycogen Metabolism
1Indiana University School of Medicine-Muncie and Ball State University; bapederson@bsu.edu.
Articles Discussed:
Wilson, W. A. Spectrophotometric methods for the study of eukaryotic glycogen metabolism. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (174), e63046 (2021). Wang, J. J. et al. A non-degradative extraction method for molecular structure characterization of bacterial glycogen particles. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (180), e63016 (2022). Wang, Z., Liu, Q., Wang, L., Gilbert, R. G., Sullivan, M. A. The extraction of liver glycogen molecules for glycogen structure determination. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (180), e63088 (2022). Jensen, R., Ortenblad, N., di Benedetto, C., Qvortrup, K., Nielsen, J. Quantification of subcellular glycogen distribution in skeletal muscle fibers using transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (180), e63347 (2022). Fermont, L., Szydlowski, N., Colleoni, C. Determination of glucan chain length distribution of glycogen using the fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate electrophoresis (FACE) method. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (181), e63392 (2022).
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