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Marine Biological Materials of Invertebrate Origin

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Chitin of marine invertebrate’s origin (cephalopod molluscs, crustaceans) has been traditionally well studied as the main source for manufacturing of its derivate chitosan. Nowadays, the trend is directed to naturally prefabricated three dimensional (3D) chitinous scaffolds which can be simply isolated from diverse marine demosponges. Such ready to use constructs have been reported as applicable as adsorbents, scaffolds for development of composite materials and biocompatible matrices for tissue engineering of diverse human mesenchymal stromal cells. This chapter includes huge list of references on chitin properties and applications including recently published books and reviews.

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Ehrlich, H. (2019). Chitin. In: Marine Biological Materials of Invertebrate Origin. Biologically-Inspired Systems, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92483-0_24

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