Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Marine Derived Functional Biopolymer Chitosan and its Derivatives for Biomedical Applications
(Shelma R. and Chandra P. Sharma, Division of Biosurface technology, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India)

Chapter 2 – N-Acetylglucosamine: Medical Importance of Chitin and Chitosan
(Ali Özhan Aytekin, Ahmet Katý and Berna Üstüner, Department of Genetic and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Yeditepe University, 26 Aðustos Campus, Kayýþdaðý, Ýstanbul, Turkey)

Chapter 3 – Enzymatic Synthesis of Chitin Oligosaccharides with Longer Chains
(Naoyuki Umemoto, Takayuki Ohnuma and Tamo Fukamizo, Department of Advanced Bioscience, Kinki University, Nakamachi, Nara, Japan)

Chapter 4 – Therapeutic Potential of Fucoidans in Ischemic Diseases
(C. Boisson-Vidal, Sylvia Colliec-Jouault and Anne Marie Fischer, Inserm UMR, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, avenue de l’observatoire Paris, France, and others)
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Chapter 5 – Polysaccharides Obtained from Marine Organisms in Obesity Control
(Rafael Barros Gomes Camara, Ruth Medeiros Oliveira and Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha, Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Polímeros Naturais (BIOPOL), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil)

Chapter 6 – Application of Marine Polysaccharides in Nanotechnology
(Raniere Fagundes Melo-Silveira, Jailma Almeida-Lima, and Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Rocha, Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Polímeros Naturais (BIOPOL), Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal/RN, Brazil)

Chapter 7 – Anticoagulant Properties of Marine Polysaccharides (P. Shobharani, R. Sowmya and N.M. Sachindra, Central Food Technological Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Mysore, India)

Chapter 8 – Structure-Function Relationship of Anticoagulant and Antithrombotic Marine Sulfated Polysaccharides of Well-Defined Chemical Structures
(Vitor H. Pomin, Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, and University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Chapter 9 – Marine Sulfated Glycans with an Unusual Serpin-Independent Anticoagulant Activity
(Bianca F. Glauser, Paulo A.S. Mourão, and Vitor H. Pomin, Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Chapter 10 – Biological Activities and Health Benefits of Marine-Derived Glycoconjugates
(Se-Kwon Kim and Sung-Hwan Eom, Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea, and others)

Index