Ultrasonic depolymerization of the chitin-glucan complex from Aspergillus niger and antimutagenic activity of its product

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-114

  Machova E ^a   Kogan, G ^a   Chorvatovicova D ^b   Sandula J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chitin glucan; Depolymerization; Ultrasonication

Indexed keywords

CHITIN DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLUCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; GEL FILTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; ULTRASOUND;

CHITIN; FILTRATION; MICROORGANISMS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SONOCHEMISTRY; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEPOLYMERIZATION; GLUCAN; ULTRASONICATION;

MACROMOLECULES;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 0033104508     PISSN: 13504177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4177(98)00024-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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