Poly-n-acetyl glucosamine

Klokkevold P R, Lukayama H, Sung E C, et al. (1999). The effect of chitosan (poly-N-acetyl glucosamine) on lingual hemostasis in heparinized rabbits. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 57 49-52. 

T.H. Fischer, R. Connolly, H.S. Thatte, S.S. Schwaitzberg, Comparison of structural and hemostatic properties of the poly-N-acetyl glucosamine Syvek Patch with products containing chitosan, Microsc. Res. Technol. 63 (2004) 168-174. 

D. Mago, M. Thomas, J. Stewart, W. RoUefson, E Flaherty, B. Murphy and E Ribeiro, A poly-N-acetyl glucosamine hemostatic dressing for femoral artery access site hemostasis after percutaneous coronary intervention a pilot stndy . Journal Invasive Cardiology, vol. 22, no.l, pp. 35-39, Jan. 2010. 

HemCon, 565 hemostasis, 565-71 hemostatic materials, 577-83 Gelfoam, 579 HemCon, 582 poly-N-acetyl glucosamine hemostatic dressing, 582 QuikClot, 584 Surgicel, 578... 

Table 19.3 A poly-N-acetyl glucosamine hemostatic dressing for femoral artery access ...

Chitin (Poly-N-acetyl glucosamine) deacetylate Nano carrier Systemic hemostatic carrier Hemorrhage treatment... 

Pietramaggiori, G., et al. Effects of poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (pGlcNAc) patch on wound healing in db/db mouse. 1. Trauma Acute Care Surg. 64(3), 803-808 (2008)... 

USEPA (2001) Chitin Poly-N-acetyl-o-glucosamine (128991) Fact Sheet http // www.epa.gov/oppbppdl/biopesticides/ ingredients / factsheets / factsheeCl 28991. htm (last accessed 30 April 2010). 

Carlstrom D. The crystal stmctme of alpha-chitin (poly-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine). J. Cell Biol. 1957, 3, 669-683. 

Maira-Litran, T., Kropec, A., Goldmann, D. A., and Pier, G. B. (2005) Comparative opsonic and protective activities of Staphylococcus aureus conjugate vaccines containing native or deacetylated Staphylococcal Poly-N-acetyl-beta-(l-6)-glucosamine. Infect. Immun. 73, 6752-6762. 

Chitin, a waste material from crab and shrimp processing, is poly(N-acetyl-D-glucosamine). The de-acetylated form, chitosan, is primarily used in water purification but is also used as a chemical feedstock. For example, chitosan can be depolymerized to the monomer, which is used as a hair-setting agent in shampoo and hair conditioner. In the future, graft polymers of chitosan may form biodegradable films. Already, carboxymethylated chitin is approved as a food wrap. 

Carpozza, R.C. (1976) Spimung and shaping poly-(N-acetyl-D-glucosamine). US Patent 3,988, 411 Carpozza, R.C. (1976) Solution of poly-(N-acetyl-D-glucosamine), US Patent 3,989,535. 

Chitin/Protein complexes are found in fungi and in the arthropod cuticle. Chitin is the poly-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. 

Polyacetal resin. See Acetal copolymer Poly (1,4-P-2-acetamido-3-deoxy-D-glucoside) glycanohydrolase. See Glucanase Poly (N-acetyl-D-glucosamine). See Chitin Polyacrylamide CAS 9003-05-8... 

Chitin is a polysaccharide found in the outer skeleton of crustaceans, insects, crabs, shrimp, lobsters, in the internal structures of other invertebrates, and in the ceU walls of fungi. Chitin (poly-N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-l,4-P-d-glucan) (Figure 11.6) is one of the three most abundant polysaccharides in nature, is biodegradable, non-toxic, and readily biocompatible. 

Chitinase induction in estuarine sediments was documented. Although the polymer chitin (poly-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine) is the major organic component of all arthropod exoskeletons and is prolific in the diatoms, there has been no demonstration of the chit in-induced hydrolytic enzymes (chitinases) responsible for the extracellular digestion of these ubiquitous chitins. Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) exoskeleton was dosed into compacted anaerobic muds. Subsequent incubation for 30 d under aerobic ambient seawater conditions (28° C 12-15 ppt salinity) resulted in significant increases of chitinase in amended sediment as compared to controls which had... 

Fischer, T. K., Thatte, H. S., Nichols, T. C., Bender-Neal, D. E., Bellinger, D. A. Vournakis, J. N. (2005). Synergistic piateiet integrin signaling and factor XII activation in poly-A-acetyl glucosamine fiber-mediated hemostasis. Biomaterials, 26, 5433-5443. 

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