1950 5 270 Xylan is classified as a glycan because it is largely, if not entirely, a polymer of an unmodified sugar or sugars.
1953 Whistler & Smart i. 17 The term glycan is to be distinguished from glycosan.
1988 263 6031/1 It is concluded that N-glycan processing is correlated with the state of enterocytic differentiation of HT-29 cells.