Archive for the ‘December 2008’ Category

Chitin and chitosan: Versatile polysaccharides produced by Rhizopus arrhizus

Monday, December 15th, 2008

A. C. SILVA1, M.C. FREITAS DA SILVA2, F. MADEIRO3, V.A. SANTOS3 and

G. M. CAMPOS TAKAKI4*

IMaster’s Course in Development of Environmental Processes, . 2PhD student in Fungal Biology, Federal University of Pernambuco, 50.000-000 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

3Centre of Sciences and Technology, 4Nucleus of Research in Environmental Sciences, Catholic University of Pernambuco, 50.050-900 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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Physiochemical and bioactivity behavior of highly soluble chitosan-L-glutamic acid aerogel derivative

Monday, December 15th, 2008

JAY SINGHa, P.K. DUTTA*a, b, J.DUTTAc, A.J. HUNTb, D.J. MACQUARRIE b, and J.H. CLARKb

aDepartment of Chemistry, M.N.National Institute of Technology, Deemed University, Allahabad 211004, India

bGreen Chemistry Centre of Excellence, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD UK

cDepartment of Skin and Tissue Engineering, Reliance Life Sciences Centre, Thane Belapur Road, Rabale, Navi Mumbai 400 701, India

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Part 2: Production of lactic acid by immobilized lactic acid bacteria in modified chitosan beads

Monday, December 15th, 2008

RUHAIDA RUSMIN1 and ZAINOHA ZAKARIA2

1Universiti Teknologi MARA Negeri Sembilan, PO Box 156, 72007 Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

2Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

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Chitosan based bioactive film: Functional properties towards biotechnological needs#

Monday, December 15th, 2008

SHIPRA TRIPATHI1, G. K. MEHROTRA1, C. K. M. TRIPATHI2,

B. BANERJEE2, A K JOSHI2, and P. K. DUTTA1*

1Department of Chemistry, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Allahabad 211004, India

2Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India

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Bioactive and cell attachment studies of chitosan/gelatin membranes for tissue-engineering applications

Monday, December 15th, 2008

R.JAYAKUMAR1*, K. T. SHALUMON1, V. V. DIVYA RANI1, N. SELVAMURUGAN1, S. V. NAIR1, H. NAGAHAMA2, T. FURUIKE2 and H. TAMURA2

1Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Viswa Vidhyapeetham University, Cochin-682 026, India

2Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering and High Technology Research Centre, Kansai University, Osaka-564-8680, Japan

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Preparation of genipin crosslinked chitosan scaffolds using supercritical carbon dioxide (sc. CO2)

Monday, December 15th, 2008

KUMARI RINKI and P. K. DUTTA*

Department of Chemistry

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, India

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Bimodal carboxymethyl chitosan/collagen nanofiber composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Monday, December 15th, 2008

GUANGYUAN LU1, GAN WANG1, BAIYANG SHENG1, LIHAI ZHANG2,

YANDAO GONG1, XIUFANG ZHANG1*

1Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, State Key Lab of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 P.R.China

2Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing,100853

P.R.China

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Evaluation of humoral and cellular immune response in a murine model using vesicles outer membrane of Brucella ovis in chitosan nanoparticles

Monday, December 15th, 2008

E. SALAS T1, P. MARTÍNEZ B1, R. T. GODÍNEZ R1, A. NÚÑEZ DEL ARCO1, and

S.P. MIRANDA C2*

1Laboratorio de Inmunodiagnóstico microbiano, 2Laboratorio de Biotecnología. Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. Primero de Mayo s/n, Cuautitlan Izcalli, Estado de México 54740, México

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Evaluation of optical photoluminescence properties for cyano based chitosan derivative film

Monday, December 15th, 2008

SANTOSH KUMAR and P.K.DUTTA*

Department of Chemistry, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Allahabad-211 004, India

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Removal of coomassie brilliant blue from laboratory wastewater with chitosan beads

Monday, December 15th, 2008

SHAHIN SHARIF ALI, NARESH KASOJU, ABISHEK SAHU, DEBAJEET KUMAR BORA and UTPAL BORA*

Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati-781039, Assam, India

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