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  title info:
    title: Chitin
    sub title: fulfilling a biomaterials promise
  name:
    name part: Khor, Eugene.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd.
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: So far little has been discussed on the groundwork necessary for chitin to claim its rightful place as a biomaterial. This book aims to describe the factors necessary to standardize chitin processing and characterization. It attempts to capture the essential interplay between chitin's assets and its limitations as a biomaterial, placing the past promises of chitin in perspective, addressing its present realities and limitations as a biomaterial and offering an insight into what is required for chitin, and its derivative chitosan, to fulfil its potential as a biomaterial of the 21st Century. The ongoing search for alternative and better ways to treat medical problems is filled with challenges and opportunities. When replacing body parts with artificial substitutes, state-of-the art technology developments such as Tissue Engineering are fuelling the quest for better biomaterials that can meet a myriad of challenges. Central to this goal is the potential for the utilization of materials from nature. Amongst the possible candidates, chitin has been poised to be one such natural material which could be the answer to a variety of needs in the biomedical field. According to researchers, chitin possesses capabilities as a wound dressing, in bone substitutes and in drug delivery carriers, abilities which have evoked great enthusiasm. However this excitement is accompanied by confusion and lack of consensus, and this book also attempts to address these issues.
  table of contents: Chapter headings. The relevance Of chitin. Chitin biomedical applications. Chitin as a biomaterial. Biocompatibility issues. The sources and production of chitin. The structural properties of chitin as it is known today. The chemistry of chitin as it is known today. The regulatory road to approval for chitin. Too late the hero?
  note: Eugene Khor.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Chitin
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical materials
  subject:
    topic: Biocompatibility
  subject:
    topic: Chitin
    topic: pharmacology
  subject:
    topic: Chitin
    topic: therapeutic use
  subject:
    topic: Biocompatible Materials
    topic: pharmacology
  subject:
    topic: Biocompatible Materials
    topic: therapeutic use
  subject:
    topic: Chitine
    topic: Biotechnologie
  subject:
    topic: Biomatériaux
  subject:
    topic: Biocompatibilité
  subject:
    topic: Biocompatibility
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical materials
  subject:
    topic: Chitin
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Polímeros (química orgânica)
  classification: TP248.65.C55 K48 2001eb
  classification: 660.6
  classification: 2003 A-650
  classification: QU 83 K45c 2001
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    title info:
      title: Chitin
    name:
      name part: Khor, Eugene.
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001
    identifier: (DLC) 2001040632
    identifier: (OCoLC)47666715
  identifier: 9780080440187
  identifier: 0080440185
  identifier: 126847:128584 Elsevier Science & Technology
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070806
    record change date: 20260326151236.4
    record identifier: in00005732546
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng