Biomedical activity of chitin/chitosan based materials- influence of physicochemical properties apart from molecular weight and degree of N-Acetylation

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1875-1901

  Kumirska, Jolanta ^a   Weinhold, Mirko X ^b   Thöming, Jorg ^b   Stepnowski, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical activity; Chitin; Chitosan; Chitosan source; Degree of quaternization; Degree of substitution; Ionic strength; pH; Structure property activity relationships

Indexed keywords

AMINO GROUP; BIOLOGICAL POINTS; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; BIOMEDICAL ACTIVITY; CHITIN/CHITOSAN; CHITOSAN SAMPLES; CHITOSAN SOLUTION; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREE OF SUBSTITUTION; MEDICINAL PRODUCTS; N-ACETYLATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRODUCTION PROCESS; QUATERNIZATION; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SOLUTION CONDITIONS; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS;

ACETYLATION; CHITIN; IONIC STRENGTH; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PH;

CHITOSAN;

EID: 84861780756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3041875     Document Type: Review

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