Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Michael Allen Polewski

Jess Dreher Reed

Christian Gerald Krueger

James M Ntambi

Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam

Sergio Madrigal-Carballo

Emilia Alfaro-Viquez

Ricki L Colman

Mary J Lindstrom

Rozalyn M Anderson

Maggie S Burhans

Methods of purifying mucin, purified mucin, and products comprising the purified mucin. The methods include combining a mucin-containing substance with water and one or more purification agents to form a purification mixture, incubating the purification mixture for a time sufficient to form a mucin precipitate in a liquid phase, and separating the mucin precipitate from the liquid phase. The purification agents include one or more of a surfactant, a chelating agent, and a protic solvent. The mucin purified from the methods can be used alone or in combination with a biopolymer such as a tannin and chitosan and can be used to generate materials in the form of a gel, a foam, a film, or a powder.

Methods of purifying Mucin

Provided herein are reagents, methods and biochemical markers for identifying individuals with glucoregulatory dysfunction and providing therapeutic intervention for individuals identified as at risk for glucoregulatory dysfunction. Specifically provided herein are methods for identifying a subject with glucoregulatory dysfunction based on changes in fasting blood lipid concentrations including, inter alia, diacylglycerols.

Methods for predicting glucoregulatory dysfunction via diacylglycerol fatty acid species concentrations

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Michael Allen Polewski