Journal ArticleDOI
Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications
TLDR
Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world as mentioned in this paper, and the main sources of chitin are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs, which are used for food, cosmetics, biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2006-07-01. It has received 6365 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chitin nanofibril.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Propolis-based niosomes as oromuco-adhesive films: A randomized clinical trial of a therapeutic drug delivery platform for the treatment of oral recurrent aphthous ulcers.
TL;DR: Oromuco-adhesive films which offer controlled and targeting drug delivery can be proposed as a new therapeutic strategy in the treatment of oral recurrent aphthous ulcer.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cisplatin-Loaded Graphene Oxide/Chitosan/Hydroxyapatite Composite as a Promising Tool for Osteosarcoma-Affected Bone Regeneration
TL;DR: The results suggested that the CDDP-loaded GO/HAP/CS-3/CDDP nanocomposite has an immense prospective as a bone tissue replacement in the bone-cancer-affected tissues.
Journal ArticleDOI
Topical hydrogel matrix loaded with Simvastatin microparticles for enhanced wound healing activity.
TL;DR: The incorporation of Simvastatin-chitosan microparticles in PVA hydrogels has demonstrated significant wound healing efficiency at optimum dose and the histopathology images of the different groups of animals displayed the comparative changes in the wound healing process.
Journal ArticleDOI
Preparation and Characterization of Chitosan by a Novel Deacetylation Approach Using Glycerol as Green Reaction Solvent
Cui-Yun Liu,Guanhua Wang,Guanhua Wang,Guanhua Wang,Wenjie Sui,Liang-Liang An,Chuanling Si,Chuanling Si +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the chitosan deacetylation degree was up to 85.36 ± 1.04% and the corresponding viscosity-average molecular weight was 30.874 ± 1123 g mol-1 under the optimized conditions of this process.
Journal ArticleDOI
Electrochemical sensors based on molecularly imprinted chitosan: A review
Fares Zouaoui,Fares Zouaoui,Saliha Bourouina-Bacha,Mustapha Bourouina,Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault,Nadia Zine,Abdelhamid Errachid +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the value of using chitosan as a functional monomer by highlighting its applications in electrochemical sensors and report on the principle of the molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) technique describing different possible approaches in their synthesis.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Complexation Thermodynamics of Cyclodextrins.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chitosan chemistry and pharmaceutical perspectives.
TL;DR: Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S. S. Nagar, Punjab-160 062, India, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University, Via Ranieri 67, IT-60100 Ancona, Italy, and Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Natural Products,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Pharmacy-Faculty of medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Journal ArticleDOI
Application of chitin- and chitosan-based materials for enzyme immobilizations: a review
TL;DR: A review of the literature on enzymes immobilized on chitin- and chitosan-based materials, covering the last decade, is presented in this paper, where one hundred fifty-eight papers on 63 immobilized enzymes for multiplicity of applications ranging from wine, sugar and fish industry, through organic compounds removal from wastewaters to sophisticated biosensors for both in situ measurements of environmental pollutants and metabolite control in artificial organs, are reviewed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Novel injectable neutral solutions of chitosan form biodegradable gels in situ
Abdellatif Chenite,C Chaput,Dadong Wang,C Combes,Michael D. Buschmann,Caroline D. Hoemann,Jean-Christophe Leroux,B.L Atkinson,F Binette,A Selmani +9 more
TL;DR: This study reports for the first time the use of polymer/polyol salt aqueous solutions as gelling systems, suggesting the discovery of a prototype for a new family of thermosetting gels highly compatible with biological compounds.
Journal ArticleDOI
An infrared investigation in relation with chitin and chitosan characterization
J Brugnerotto,J. Lizardi,Francisco M. Goycoolea,Waldo Argüelles-Monal,Jacques Desbrieres,Marguerite Rinaudo +5 more
TL;DR: The use of infrared spectroscopy for characterization of the composition of chitin and chitosan covering the entire range of degree of acetylation (DA) and a wide variety of raw materials is examined further in this article.