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Analysis of antioxidant properties of chitosan and its oligomers

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Oral treatment with chitosan with a molecular weight ∼105, but not its oligomer, reduced plasma content of free-radical oxidation products in normal rats and animals treated for the bone marrow form of radiation sickness and stimulated the recovery processes in involved bone marrow and peripheral blood.

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  1. N. I. Lobachevsky Nizhnii Novgorod State University, Russia

    A. S. Koryagin, E. A. Erofeeva, N. O. Yakimovich, E. A. Aleksandrova, L. A. Smirnova & A. V. Mal’kov

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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 142, No. 10, pp. 444–446, October, 2006

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Koryagin, A.S., Erofeeva, E.A., Yakimovich, N.O. et al. Analysis of antioxidant properties of chitosan and its oligomers. Bull Exp Biol Med 142, 461–463 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-006-0392-9

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