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Chitosan*

Antimicrobial activities of hydrogel burn wound dressing and chitosan were investigated against nine strains of bacteria and fungi, including P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, Enterobacter, P. vulgaris, P. mirabilis, E. coli, Klebsiella, B. subtilis, C. albicans. The results showed that both hydrogel dressing and chitosan have antimicrobial effect and the effect of hydrogel dressing is higher than that of chitosan. Antimicrobial activity of hydrogel dressing in experiment in rabbit was also tested.
burns ; chitosan

Quaternized chitosan was synthesized and structurally determined. The result showed that N,N,N-trimethylchitosan had a significant lowering cholesterol effect in blood of rats and rabbits in comparison to cholestyramine. Moreover TMC did not decrease the HDL-C (High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol) used in treatment of arteriosclerosis.
chitosan ; Cholesterol

The chitosan produced from carapace of shrimp was used under cream form with concentration of 2% to treat experiment thermal burn wounds on 30 rabbits. Two thermal burn wounds were created on each rabbit, one of them was treated by excipient only or silver sulfadiazin cream 1% or maduxin ointment. The experimental results showed that:- Chitosan had antibacterial effect, especially on S.aureus, P.aeruginosa and E.coli. These dangerous bacteria resisted against many antibiotics. -The antibacterial effect of chitosan was similar to that of silver sulfadiazin and maduxin.
Chitosan, burns

A study on the histological changes in the experimental burn treated by chitosan cream, comparing with sulfadiazine-silver 1%, and maduxin ointment has shown that chitosan increased the process of tissue regeneration and wound healing. These activities were equivalent to these of sulfadiazine-silver cream 1% and maduxin ointment.
burns, chitosan

A total of 40 patients with asymptomatic HCV infection were involved in this study at Immunology Department of Military Hospital 108. Frequency of elevated transaminase was 27,5%. The change of amount of TCD4, TCD8, TCD3, B cell was found in 75%. Subjects were divided in to 2 groups: patients with asymptomatic HCV infection and elevated transaminase (group A) and asymptomatic HCV patients without elevated transaminase (group B). Number of TCD4, TCD8, TCD3, BCD19 increased significantly in group A, higher than in group B and controls. There was positive correlation between increasing TCD4, especially TCD8 with transaminase. Response of both T cell and B cell was shown in group A.
Chitosan ; Temperature

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Animals ; Chitosan* ; Eating* ; Mice*

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Animals ; Chitosan* ; Rats* ; Water*

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Chitosan* ; Osteoblasts* ; Peptides* ; Transplants*

Protein trace present in chitin/chitosan product has been determined by our proposed method in which protein trace included in chitin/chitosan was extracted by refraction in 10% NaOH solution at 100oC for 5 hours. Chitin/Chitosan precipitate was discarded. protein trace in the solution was restored by neutralizing with HCl 10N to get the yellow powder. This powder was then analyzed for total nitrogen content by Kjeldahl method. The control method was conducted at the same procedure excepted from the presence of 10% NaOH. The results of different chitin/chitosan samples obtained from these two methods showed that amount of protein trace obtained from above proposed method was somewhat higher than that of the control one. Besides, the purified chitosan sample gave the lower protein trace content than that of the technical chitosan sample as well as chitin one. Protein trace bound between macromolecules of chitin/chitosan was separated in the proposed method by boiling water under alkaline condition whereas it was not completely separated in the control method because sodium hydroxide was absent.
Chitin ; Chitosan ; Proteins