“…Due to the high charge density and size of these molecules, it is the most documented method, allowing separation according to mass and charge. However, most of the reported work involves the analysis of oligosaccharides of small degree of polymerization such as the disaccharides generated by enzymatic degradations (Linhardt and Pervin, 1996;Karamanos et al, 1996;Toida and Linhardt, 1996;Grimshaw, 1997;Ruiz-Calero et al, 1998;Damm et al, 1992;Pervin et al, 1994;Desai et al, 1993). Only a few applications of capillary electrophoresis to intact anionic polysaccharides have been reported (Malsch et al, 1995(Malsch et al, , 1996Grimshaw et al, 1994;Roberts et al, 1998;Hayase et al, 1997;Mala et al, 1996).…”