textual entity hypothesis textual entity 2009/09/28 Alan Ruttenberg. Fucoidan-use-case A textual entity that expresses an assertion that is intended to be tested. Person:Alan Ruttenberg hypothesis textual entity that fucoidan has a small statistically significant effect on AT3 level but no useful clinical effect as in-vivo anticoagulant, a paraphrase of part of the last paragraph of the discussion section of the paper 'Pilot clinical study to evaluate the anticoagulant activity of fucoidan', by Lowenthal et. al.PMID:19696660 metadata complete