Applications of Chitin and Chitosan is illustrated with over 100 photos, charts, graphs and figures and more than 40 tables. This book is a great reference to industrial personnel involved in bioprocessing as well as bioengineering students, specialists in the biomedical and biopharmaceutical industry, biochemists, food engineers, environmentalists, and microbiologists and biologists who specialize in chitosan technology.

Contents

Part I: Overview

• Applications and Properties of Chitosan
  Q. Li, E. T. Dunn, E. W. Grandmaison and M. F. A. Goosen, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Applications of Chitin and Chitosan in the Ecological and Environmental Fields
  Shigehiro Hirano, Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

Part II: Structure and Properties

• Chitin Structure and Activity of Chitin-Specific Enzymes
  Maria L. Bade, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• b-Chitin and Reactivity Characteristics
  Keisuke Kurita, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan
• Characterization and Solution Properties of Chitosan and Chitosan Derivatives
  M. Rinaudo, M. Milas and J. DesbriŠres, CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble cedex, France
• Soluble Precursors for Efficient Chemical Modifications
  Keisuke Kurita, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

Part III: Food and Agriculture

• Chitosans as Dietary Food Additives
  Riccardo A. A. Muzzarelli, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ancona, Ancona Italy; Massimo De Vincenzi, Department of Metabolism and Pathological Biochemistry, Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Rome, Italy
• Enhancing Food Production with Chitosan Seed Coating Technology
  Donald Freepons, Kennewick, Washington
• Inhibition of Molting in Chewing Insect Pests
  Maria L. Bade, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Properties of Insect Chitin Synthase: Effects of Inhibitors, g-S-GPT and Compounds Influencing Membrane Lipids
  Michael Londershausen and Andreas Turberg, Institute for Parasitology, Bayer, AG, Leverkusen, Germany; Monika Ludwig, B„rbel Hirsch and Margarethe Spindler-Barth, Lehrstuhl fur Hormon- und Entwicklungsphysiologie, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
• New Applications of Chitin and Its Derivatives in Plant Protection
  Henryk Struszczyk, Institute of Chemical Fibres, Lodz, Poland; Henryk Pospieszny, Institute of Plant Protection, Poznan, Poland
• Chitinolytic Enzymes in Selected Species of Veterinary Importance
  Michael Londershausen and Andreas Turberg, Institute for Parasitology, Bayer, AG, Leverkusen, Germany
• Applications of Chitin, Chitosan, and Their Derivatives to Drug Carriers for Microparticulated or Conjugated Drug Delivery Systems
  Hiraku Onishi, Ph.D., Tsuniji Nagai, Ph.D. and Yoshiharu Machida, Ph.D., Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan

Part IV: Medicine and Biotechnology

• Chitosan-Alginate Affinity Microcapsules for Isolation of Bovine Serum Albumin
  Mattheus F. A. Goosen, Osei-Wusu Achaw and Edward W. Grandmaison, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Structure and Isolation of Native Animal Chitins
  Maria L. Bade, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Part V: Textiles and Polymers

• Fine Structure and Properties of Filaments Prepared from Chitin Derivatives
  G. W. Urbanczyk, Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
• Graft Copolymers
  Keisuke Kurita, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

Part VI: Wastewater Treatment

• Applications of Chitosan for the Elimination of Organochlorine Xenobiotics from Wastewater
  J. P. Thome and Ch. Jeuniaux, University of Liege, Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Liege, Belgium; M. Weltrowski, Textile Technology Centre, Quebec, Canada