“…These antibodies are generally specific to cyclic pyranose or furanose structures of sugars. Although antibodies to D-mannose (Pazur et al, 1992), mannotetraose (Zopf et al, 1978), and mannosyl trisaccharide (Vargas et al, 1992) have been described using p-aminophenyl glycosides of the respective saccharides covalently coupled to a carrier protein as synthetic antigens, an anti-carbohydrate antibody specific to D-mannitol, to our knowledge, has not been reported so far.…”