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Enzymatic production and biological activities of chitosan oligosaccharides (COS): A review
Se-Kwon Kim,Niranjan Rajapakse +1 more
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This review has summarized different enzymatic preparation methods of COS and some of their reported biological activities, such as antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, and immunostimulant effects are depend on their physico-chemical properties.About:
This article is published in Carbohydrate Polymers.The article was published on 2005-12-14. It has received 763 citations till now.read more
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Microbial enzymes: industrial progress in 21st century
TL;DR: This review highlights and discusses current technical and scientific involvement of microorganisms in enzyme production and their present status in worldwide enzyme market.
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Chitosan composites for bone tissue engineering--an overview.
TL;DR: The preparation, mechanical properties, chemical interactions and in vitro activity of chitosan composites for bone tissue engineering will be discussed.
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Review on the use of insects in the diet of farmed fish: Past and future
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Chitosan based hydrogels and their applications for drug delivery in wound dressings: A review
TL;DR: Applications and structural characteristics of different types of active ingredients, such as growth factors, nanoparticles, nanostructures, and drug loaded chitosan hydrogels are summarized.
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Production of Chitooligosaccharides and Their Potential Applications in Medicine
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TL;DR: Techniques that may be used to produce and characterize reasonably well-defined CHOS fractions are provided and possible medical applications of CHOS are presented, including tumor growth inhibition and inhibition of TH2-induced inflammation in asthma and use as a bone-strengthener in osteoporosis.
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Food applications of chitin and chitosans
TL;DR: Application of chitinous products in foods and pharmaceuticals as well as processing aids has received considerable attention in recent years as exotic synthetic compounds are losing their appeal.
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Antibacterial action of chitosan
TL;DR: Fungal chitosan had significantly less antibiotic effect than CH and CL, and was shown to be concentration dependent with 0.1 mg/mL more effective than 2.0 and 5.0 mg/ mL.
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Chitosan: A Unique Polysaccharide for Drug Delivery
TL;DR: The aim of this review is to give an insight into the many potential applications of chitosan as a pharmaceutical drug carrier.
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Chitin in nature and technology
TL;DR: Chitin has been a landmark for polysaccharides and modified chitins, besides chitin itself, to the point that three International Conferences on Chitin / Chitosan were convened (Boston, U.S. A. 1977, Sapporo, Japan 1982 and Senigallia, Italy 1985).
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Antimicrobial effect of chitooligosaccharides produced by bioreactor
TL;DR: In this paper, the antibacterial effect of three kinds of chitooligosaccharides with relatively higher molecular weights (HMWCOS), medium molecular weight (MMWCOS), and lower molecular weight, respectively, was evaluated against various microorganisms.