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Ajit Varki
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 557
Citations - 63836
Ajit Varki is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sialic acid & SIGLEC. The author has an hindex of 124, co-authored 542 publications receiving 58772 citations. Previous affiliations of Ajit Varki include Emory University & National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
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Six blind men and the elephant--the many faces of heparan sulfate.
TL;DR: It was six men of Indostan, who went to see the Elephant, though all of them were blind, that each by observation by observation might satisfy his mind.
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Exploring the outcome of genetic modifications of glycosylation in cultured cell lines by concurrent isolation of the major classes of vertebrate glycans
TL;DR: This "Glycan Isolation Protocol" is applied to a variety of cultured mammalian cell lines and some of their genetically modified variants that were predicted or known to have defined abnormalities in the biosynthesis of one or more classes of glycans are identified.
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Evolutionary conservation of human ketodeoxynonulosonic acid production is independent of sialoglycan biosynthesis.
Kunio Kawanishi,Kunio Kawanishi,Sudeshna Saha,Sandra Diaz,Michael Vaill,Aniruddha Sasmal,Shoib S. Siddiqui,Shoib S. Siddiqui,Biswa Choudhury,Kumar Sharma,Xi Chen,Ian C. Schoenhofen,Chihiro Sato,Ken Kitajima,Hudson H. Freeze,Anja K. Münster-Kühnel,Ajit Varki +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether human metabolic incorporation of nonhuman sialic acid (Sia) N-glycolylneuraminic acid into endogenous glycans generates inflammation via preexisting antibodies, which likely contributes to red meat-induced atherosclerosis acceleration.