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Bioprocessing of chitin and chitosan

  • Simpson B
  • Gagne N
  • Simpson M
Springer US, (1994), 155-173
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5303-8_7
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Abstract

Chitin is a non-toxic, biodegradable, high molecular weight, naturally occurring polymer of N-acetylglucosamine and glucosamine residues, which is widely distributed in nature. The constituent monosaccharide units in chitin are linked together by β(1–4)...

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Simpson, B. K., Gagne, N., & Simpson, M. V. (1994). Bioprocessing of chitin and chitosan. In Fisheries Processing (pp. 155–173). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5303-8_7

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