Carbohydrates are polyhydroxy aldehydes, alcohols, ketones, acids, their simple derivatives and polymers. A carbohydrate consists of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms. Based on their degree of polymerization, they can be classified into sugars, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides.
Studies have shown that carbohydrates and their derivatives present key roles in the immune system, fertilization, blood clotting, preventing pathogenesis, and development.
Over the past decades, carbohydrate antigens have been served as the important tumor markers and also the targets of the anti-cancer drugs. For example, carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA-125) shows the function in advancing tumorigenesis and tumor proliferation by several different mechanisms; carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) is the tumor marker in the management of pancreatic cancer; carbohydrate antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) is a tumor marker for many types of cancer, especially breast cancer; carbohydrate antigen 72-4 (CA 72-4) is a tumor marker found to be elevated in a variety of human adenocarcinomas.
Creative Biolabs now provides a variety of carbohydrate antigens, which include but not limited to oligosaccharides, nucleosides, monosaccharides, neoglycolipids, glycans. If you are interested in our products, please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.
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