Polysaccharide Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Polysaccharide and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| An India Ink preparation in used to identify: | View Page |
| Agarose Gel Agarose gels are chemically purified forms of agar, a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed. The gel pores allow for separation of proteins based on their individual charge and mass. Agarose gel will naturally clear after drying the separated proteins.Common clinical uses of agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE) are separations of plasma proteins, hemoglobin variants, lipoproteins, and isoenzymes. The gels come prepackaged with a plastic template to lay over gel for sample application or slots etched in the gel for these samples. | View Page |
| Match the names of each of the yeast species with its most likely colony morphology as seen in the images on the right. | View Page |
| Match the names of each of the species of yeast listed with its associated phenotypic property that is helpful in establishing a species identification. | View Page |
| Shown in this photomicrograph is a Gomori methenamine silver stain of a lung biopsy obtained from a patient with X-ray evidence of multi-focal pneumonitis. The yeast most likely to be recovered in culture of this tissue is: | View Page |
| Each of the following is considered to be a virulence factor in Cryptococcus neoformans except: | View Page |