Patent ID: 8912149

Claim:
A sulfated glycosaminoglycan mimetic polymer having a plurality of repeating subunits, wherein an individual repeating subunit of said repeating subunits is a saccharide covalently linked to a backbone, wherein the number of repeating subunits in said polymer is m, and wherein the sulfated glycosaminoglycan mimetic polymer is of a formula: or or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, sulfate, and phosphate; one or more of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 is a sulfate; R 6 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, sulfite and acetyl; n is 1 or greater; wherein n 1 is between 1 and 25, n 2 is between 1 and 10, n 3 is between 1 and 10; and m is 2 or greater.