Quitosana: derivados hidrossolúveis, aplicações farmacêuticas e avanços Chitosan: hydrossoluble derivatives, pharmaceutical applications and recent advances

<abstract language="eng">Chitin and chitosan are copolymers build from N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and D-glucosamine. The former is widely found in nature and yields the latter on deacetylation. The copolymers are being used for several purposes. Since 1977, when the First International C...

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Main Authors: Hélio S. R. Costa Silva, Kátia S. C. R. dos Santos, Elizabeth I. Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2006-07-01
Series:Química Nova
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422006000400026