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Carbohydrate Synthesis and Analysis
The Dextra team are carbohydrate specialists with an international reputation in all areas of research, synthesis and analysis of carbohydrates and complex sugars.
cGMP and Contract Manufacturing
The new Dextra cGMP facility enables the production of multi-kilogram quantities for early phase clinical trials. Large scale manufacturing of simple sugars and sophisticated products is available at our New Zealand facility.
Catalogue Products
Dextra provides a range of over 1,000 catalogue products including carbohydrate building blocks, derivatives and combinatorial libraries. On-line Catalogue.
Both simple structures and an extensive collection of protected intermediates, halogenated sugars and unusual lactones available as building blocks and basic research tools
This group has a great many interesting properties including glycosidase inhibition, inhibition of cytokine pathways and chaperoning proteins.
An oligosaccharide is a saccharide polymer containing a small number of component sugars, also known as simple sugars (monosaccharides). Dextra offers a range of blood group oligosaccharides, human milk oligosaccharides along with a wide range of specialty compounds.
Dextra UK offers a range of heparin, heparan and chondroitin sulphate derived oligosaccharides ranging from the disaccharide units up to polymeric material akin to the natural material. All of these compounds are members of the glycosaminoglycan (mucopolysaccharide) family of polysaccharides.
The product line ranges from the disaccharide through to the 7-sugar maltoheptaose. The compounds offered by Dextra UK are suitable for diagnostic applications for food, pharmaceutical and many other commercial applications.
Blood groups represent an important type of blood classification (known as the ABO system) based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells and consist of specific sets of carbohydrates, depending on the blood group type.
We are able to link a wide range of carbohydrates to proteins and offer a custom service that can be tailored to meet clients' specific requirements.
We are able to link a wide range of carbohydrates to lipids and offer a custom service that can be tailored to meet clients' specific requirements.
For diagnostic applications in the food, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors, Dextra offers a range of alditol acetate standards available for gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of hydrolysed polysaccharides.
In order to provide a complete carbohydrate catalogue service, Dextra offers a range of plant, microbial and animal derived acidic and neutral polysaccharides.
New Zealand Pharmaceuticals (NZP) manufactures pharmaceutical intermediates and diagnostic products for the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
NZP is an innovative leader in the New Zealand biotechnology and manufacturing industry due to its focus on strong customer relationships and a high level of product quality management (GMP). New Zealand Pharmaceuticals Limited