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Biological activities of derivatized D-glucans: a review.
Francini Yumi Kagimura,Mário Antônio Alves da Cunha,Aneli M. Barbosa,Robert F.H. Dekker,Carlos Ricardo Maneck Malfatti +4 more
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This review shows that in-depth future studies on chemically modified glucans with amplified biological effects will be relevant in the biotechnological field because of their potential to prevent and treat numerous human disease conditions and their clinical complications.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.The article was published on 2015-01-01. It has received 87 citations till now.read more
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Present and future medical applications of microbial exopolysaccharides.
TL;DR: EPS medical applications have a broad future ahead and are well-suited potentially non-toxic, biodegradable drug carriers, according to previous and recent results in important medical-pharmaceutical domains.
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Non-covalent dietary fiber - Polyphenol interactions and their influence on polyphenol bioaccessibility
Lidija Jakobek,Petra Matić +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent literature about non-covalent dietary fiber -polyphenol interactions, parameters that affect these interactions, the types of bonds between polyphenols and dietary fibers and the influence of dietary fibers on the polyphenol bioaccessibility in the upper and lower parts of the digestive tract.
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β-Glucans: Relationships Between Modification, Conformation and Functional Activities
TL;DR: Different ways to modify β-glucan molecules including physical methods, chemical methods, and biological methods are determined, and the relationship of the flexible helix form of the molecule chain and the helix conformation to their bioactivities are revealed.
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Novel chitin/chitosan-glucan wound dressing: Isolation, characterization, antibacterial activity and wound healing properties.
A.M. Abdel-Mohsen,Josef Jancar,Diaa Massoud,Zdenka Fohlerova,H. Elhadidy,Zdenek Spotz,Ali Hebeish +6 more
TL;DR: The novel ChCsGC nonwovens exhibited excellent surgical wound healing ability when tested using rat models and also showed any cytotoxicity against mouse fibroblast cells and the cell-fabrics interaction was also investigated using fluorescence microscope.
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Physiological functionalities and mechanisms of β-glucans
Junying Bai,Yikai Ren,Yan Li,Mingcong Fan,Haifeng Qian,Li Wang,Gangcheng Wu,Hui Zhang,Xiguang Qi,Meijuan Xu,Zhiming Rao +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes recent findings regarding the physiological functionalities of β-glucans and details the action mechanisms of βglucants upon the present knowledge, and the prospects for future research on these topics are also discussed.
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