Chitosan Modification and Pharmaceutical/Biomedical Applications

Isolation, characterization and heterologous expression of a novel chitosanase from Janthinobacterium sp. strain 4239

(2010) Mads G Johnsen et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Use of a modified chitosan dressing in a hypothermic Coagulopathic grade V liver injury model

(2009) Grant Bochicchio et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Depolymerization of Chitosan with a Crude Cellulase Preparation from Aspergillus Niger

(2009) Yu Xie et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The performance of a fly-larva shell-derived chitosan sponge as an absorbable surgical hemostatic agent

(2009) Ruolan Gu et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Enhancement of the activity and pH-performance of chitosanase from Bacillus cereus strains by DNA shuffling

(2009) Yu-Mi Park et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Expression, purification, and characterization of exo-β-d-glucosaminidase of Aspergillus sp. CJ22-326 from Escherichia coli

(2009) Songlin Li et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

Effects of chitosan pentamer and chitosan hexamerin vivoandin vitroon gene expression and secretion of cytokines

(2009) Xinlin Wei et al.   FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL IMMUNOLOGY

Low molecular weight chitosan prepared with the aid of cellulase, lysozyme and chitinase: Characterisation and antibacterial activity

(2009) Shih-Bin Lin et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Separation of chitooligosaccharides and the potent effects on gene expression of cell surface receptor CR3

(2009) Xinlin Wei et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Development of in situ-forming hydrogels for hemorrhage control

(2009) Henry T. Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE

The safety of chitosan as a pharmaceutical excipient

(2009) Paul Baldrick   REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

Effects of low-temperature surface-wave plasma treatment with various gases on surface modification of chitosan

(2008) Akihisa Ogino et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Chemical Preparation and Structural Characterization of a Homogeneous Series of Chitin/Chitosan Oligomers

(2008) Stéphane Trombotto et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Development of a chitosan-based wound dressing with improved hemostatic and antimicrobial properties

(2008) Shin-Yeu Ong et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Advance in chitosan hydrolysis by non-specific cellulases

(2008) Wenshui Xia et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Purification and characterization of exo-β-d-glucosaminidase from commercial lipase

(2008) Wen-Shui Xia et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Chitins and chitosans for the repair of wounded skin, nerve, cartilage and bone

(2008) Riccardo A.A. Muzzarelli   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Improved reproducibility in the determination of the molecular weight of chitosan by analytical size exclusion chromatography

(2008) Sophie Nguyen et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Fractionation and characterization of chitosan by analytical SEC and 1H NMR after semi-preparative SEC

(2008) Sophie Nguyen et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Expression, purification and characterization of endo-type chitosanase of Aspergillus sp. CJ22-326 from Escherichia coli

(2008) Songlin Li et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

Enzymatic preparation of chitooligosaccharides by commercial lipase

(2008) Dong-Xia Lee et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

A novel method to prepare water-dispersible magnetic nanoparticles and their biomedical applications: Magnetic capture probe and specific cellular uptake

(2008) Changjiang Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Coagulation property of hyaluronic acid–collagen/chitosan complex film

(2008) Yangzhe Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE

Differential effect of materials for surface hemostasis on red blood cell morphology

(2008) Carr J. Smith et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

Solidification mechanisms of chitosan–glycerol phosphate/blood implant for articular cartilage repair

(2008) C. Marchand et al.   OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE

Extraction and characterization of chitin and chitosan from local sources

(2007) Entsar S. Abdou et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Hypocholesterolaemic effects of different chitosan samples in vitro and in vivo

(2007) Jingna Liu et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Ultrastructure of hybrid chitosan–glycerol phosphate blood clots by environmental scanning electron microscopy

(2007) M. Iliescu et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE