Anticancer and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Chitin and Chitosan Oligosaccharides

Previous reports indicate that N-acetyl-d-glucosamine oligomers (chitin oligosaccharide; NACOS) and d-glucosamine oligomers (chitosan oligosaccharide; COS) have various biological activities, especially against cancer and inflammation. In this review, we have summarized the findings of previous inve...

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Autores principales: Azuma, Kazuo, Osaki, Tomohiro, Minami, Saburo, Okamoto, Yoshiharu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25594943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfb6010033
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author Azuma, Kazuo
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description Previous reports indicate that N-acetyl-d-glucosamine oligomers (chitin oligosaccharide; NACOS) and d-glucosamine oligomers (chitosan oligosaccharide; COS) have various biological activities, especially against cancer and inflammation. In this review, we have summarized the findings of previous investigations that have focused on anticancer or anti-inflammatory properties of NACOS and COS. Moreover, we have introduced recent evaluation of NACOS and COS as functional foods against cancer and inflammatory disease.
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spelling pubmed-43840992015-05-05 Anticancer and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Chitin and Chitosan Oligosaccharides Azuma, Kazuo Osaki, Tomohiro Minami, Saburo Okamoto, Yoshiharu J Funct Biomater Review Previous reports indicate that N-acetyl-d-glucosamine oligomers (chitin oligosaccharide; NACOS) and d-glucosamine oligomers (chitosan oligosaccharide; COS) have various biological activities, especially against cancer and inflammation. In this review, we have summarized the findings of previous investigations that have focused on anticancer or anti-inflammatory properties of NACOS and COS. Moreover, we have introduced recent evaluation of NACOS and COS as functional foods against cancer and inflammatory disease. MDPI 2015-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4384099/ /pubmed/25594943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfb6010033 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Anticancer and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Chitin and Chitosan Oligosaccharides
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title_short Anticancer and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Chitin and Chitosan Oligosaccharides
title_sort anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties of chitin and chitosan oligosaccharides
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25594943
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