 Chitin
"Chitin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A linear polysaccharide of beta-1->4 linked units of ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE. It is the second most abundant biopolymer on earth, found especially in INSECTS and FUNGI. When deacetylated it is called CHITOSAN.
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D002686
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.139 D09.698.211
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| 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chitin" by people in Profiles.
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Duplais C, Sarou-Kanian V, Massiot D, Hassan A, Perrone B, Estevez Y, Wertz JT, Martineau E, Farjon J, Giraudeau P, Moreau CS. Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants. Nat Commun. 2021 01 29; 12(1):676.
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Dinwiddie A, Null R, Pizzano M, Chuong L, Leigh Krup A, Ee Tan H, Patel NH. Dynamics of F-actin prefigure the structure of butterfly wing scales. Dev Biol. 2014 Aug 15; 392(2):404-18.
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Nagatani K, Wang S, Llado V, Lau CW, Li Z, Mizoguchi A, Nagler CR, Shibata Y, Reinecker HC, Mora JR, Mizoguchi E. Chitin microparticles for the control of intestinal inflammation. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2012 Sep; 18(9):1698-710.
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Bockhorn JJ, Lazar KL, Gasser AJ, Luther LM, Qahwash IM, Chopra N, Meredith SC. Novel semisynthetic method for generating full length beta-amyloid peptides. Biopolymers. 2010; 94(4):511-20.
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Esser-Kahn AP, Francis MB. Protein-cross-linked polymeric materials through site-selective bioconjugation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2008; 47(20):3751-4.
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Kind GM, Bines SD, Staren ED, Templeton AJ, Economou SG. Chitosan: evaluation of a new hemostatic agent. Curr Surg. 1990 Jan-Feb; 47(1):37-9.
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Spreadbury CL, Krausz T, Pervez S, Cohen J. Invasive aspergillosis: clinical and pathological features of a new animal model. J Med Vet Mycol. 1989; 27(1):5-15.
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Bulawa CE, Slater M, Cabib E, Au-Young J, Sburlati A, Adair WL, Robbins PW. The S. cerevisiae structural gene for chitin synthase is not required for chitin synthesis in vivo. Cell. 1986 Jul 18; 46(2):213-25.
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