Chitosan Chitin

Last years the concern of the scientists and contributors to chitin, chitosan and chitincontaining connections has increased. It is connected to their widespread occurrence in the nature, paiticulai properties, and also feasibility in many areas of a national economy. The raw sources for obtaining chitincontaining of products are the testas of crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and also cabbage-weeds, funguses. 

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Chitosan is produced from the deacetylation of chitin. Chitosan is employed in the food industry. It is a hemostatic from which blood anticoagulants and antithrombogenic have been formed. It is often sold as a body fat-reducing agent or to be taken along with food to encapsulate fat particles. 

Chitosan is a polymer produced from hydrolysis of natural chitin. Chitosan is not readily soluble in aqueous solutions, but can be solubilized and is thus considered with other water soluble polymers. In the hydrophobic form, chitosan has been treated in a similar manner to other hydrophobic polymers with microparticles produced by emulsion and phase separation techniques. Microparticles can be taken up by the gastrointestinal lining in a manner similar to that discussed for other hydrophobic microparticles. 

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Natural polymers polysaccharides (celullose, starch, pectins, dextrans, agar, agarose, alginate, chitine, chitosan, etc.) and fibrous proteins (collagen, keratine, etc.). 

Secondly, the deacetylated form of chitin, chitosan, does not induce phytoalexin formation in the rice system but is active in other plant culture systems [99]. Glucan elicitors induce phytoalexins in legumes (soybean, chickpea, bean, alfalfa, pea) and solanaceous sp. (potato, sweet pepper) [100]. However, anthraquinone biosynthesis was stimulated in Morinda citrifolia by both chitin and chitosan. The degree of acetylation was found to be important in inducing defense responses. During the first few days of incubation after adding elicitor,... 

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