Pyrolysis GC/MS and IR spectroscopy in chitin analysis of molluscan shells

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-103

  Furuhashi, Takeshi ^a   Beran, Anton ^a   Blazso, Marianne ^b   Czegeny, Zsuzsanna ^b   Schwarzinger, Clemens ^c   Steiner, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calcification; Chitin; Insoluble shell organic matrix; Mollusca; Shell

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOPOLYMERS; BONE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHITIN; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PYROLYSIS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BEFORE AND AFTER; CALCIFICATION; CHITINASE; INSOLUBLE SHELL ORGANIC MATRIX; IR SPECTROSCOPIES; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MOLLUSCA; ORGANICS; PYROLYSIS-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIES; PYROLYSIS-GC/MS; SHELL; SHELL MATRIXES; SHELL STRUCTURES;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

CHITIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOLLUSC;

ANIMALS; CHITIN; EVOLUTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLLUSCA; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

CEPHALOPODA; MOLLUSCA; POLYPLACOPHORA; SCAPHOPODA;

EID: 58849144717     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.80498     Document Type: Article

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